<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">On Dec 22, 2009, at 7:42 AM, Niels Kobschaetzki <<a href="mailto:n.kobschaetzki@googlemail.com">n.kobschaetzki@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div><div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><span>Dammit, Textmate 2 has just gotten to the fifth place in the Vaporware Awards ;)</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/12/vaporware-2009-inhale-the-fail/" x-apple-data-detectors="true"><a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/12/vaporware-2009-inhale-the-fail/">http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/12/vaporware-2009-inhale-the-fail/</a></a></span></blockquote><br><div></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><div>Just goes to show what rubbish Wired has become as a reliable reporting agency with integrity. Their past lack of fact checking and error prone sensationalist headlines are reason enough to not take them seriously...</div><div><br></div><div>But their own rules to the "vaporware" article are as published in a linked story/article: </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.226562); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.226562); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; "><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.3; font-size: 1.3em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; ">The rules:</h2><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-position: inside; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">The product must have been promised to ship during 2009.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">No rumors. That means no Apple iTablets, Nike hover boards or 99-inch LED TVs. It has to have been announced with a 2009 release date attached.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">If you can buy it, play it, download it or open it in your browser, it doesn’t count. If it shipped — even if it sucked — it’s not vaporware.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Software stuck in a never-ending, pre-release, beta-testing stage can be considered vaporware.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Likewise hardware prototypes. It may exist in some company’s lab or trotted out at trade shows, but it’s vaporware until it hits store shelves.</li></ul></span><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.289062); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.222656); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.222656); ">Then, within the very article, they state: (last sentence the kicker)</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.226562); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.226562); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; "><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">But it’s also been stuck in 1.x limbo for years. Lead developer Allan Odgaard got so tired of answering the barrage of questions about TextMate 2’s release — including from those wondering if it would ever arrive — that he broke months of silence by posting a long sob story on his blog titled, “<a href="http://blog.macromates.com/2009/working-on-it/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(35, 141, 177); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Working on It</a>.” [1]</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">He claimed version 2 is operational, but that it is “lacking the spit and polish of a finished app.” He also refused to give a release date.</p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.277344); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.210938); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.210938); ">[1] Link to "Working on it"</span></span><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.289062); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.222656); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.222656); "><a href="http://blog.macromates.com/2009/working-on-it/">http://blog.macromates.com/2009/working-on-it/</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.285156); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.21875); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.21875); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.289062); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.222656); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.222656); ">That rule, "Must have been promised to s<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.28125); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.214844); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.214844); ">hip during 2009"; I do not believe such a promise was made. The very rule removes TM as a candidate.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.277344); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.210938); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.210938);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.289062); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.222656); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.222656); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.28125); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.214844); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.214844); ">Rule #2, did I miss a PR post somewhere? I really hope I'm not wrong about this. I'm on this list, I've got RSS feeds to every source I know. I suspect I'm not missing anything. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.257812); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.191406); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.191406); "> </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.277344); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.210938); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.210938); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.273438); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.207031); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.207031); ">Allan always seems careful; it's an inside joke on what a "no no" it is to ask about TM2 status on the mailing list. You can get away with a little trolling by asking about upgrade coats, but even that has been stated to be zero upgrade cost. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.269531); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.203125); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.203125); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.265625); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.199219); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.199219); ">The "sob story" Wired points to, in all reality was inspiring news to me. Unfortuneately, it was not realized. I'm not talking about a V.2 release, but mention of more transparency, a helper to write update posts and other user informative posts was good news. Unfortunrately, that never happened. A bit of a bummer, but is also non related to the release date, which from the Wired article, and what I know, it has always been "TM2 will ship when it ships". </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.261719); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.195312); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.195312); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.257812); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.191406); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.191406); ">I think Wired should retract this item from their list. It does not meet their own <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.242188); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.175781); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.175781); ">criteria of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.25); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.183594); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.183594); ">rules.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.253906); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.1875); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.1875); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.257812); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.191406); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.191406); ">At least they listed the CrunchPad, but that will just give Arrington a chance to write a real "sob story". </span></div><div><div>-- </div><div>Scott</div>(Sent from a mobile device)</div></div></span></body></html>