On February 16, 2007 Keith wrote:
keithg wrote:
We're not quite ready to share more details but I can assure you CheckBook 2.0 is well underway, targeted for release in just a few months. We'll have more information for everyone in the coming weeks.
I think the issue is that 11 months ago when this was written, we had been waiting for at least 6 months for an update. We are now at 18 months, and 2.0 is most definitely vapor ware. In the mean time Splasm continues to place ad's for CheckBook on Mac sites dotted around the web, so I guess 1.6 is still a good earner and Splasm does not see / feel any urgency to ship a V2 product. Couple that lack of urgency to Keith still being at College where he probably has more pressing things to get done, and I would guess we are now realistically looking at the end of the academic year (May) before we possibly see anything. My guess is that come May he will then be looking for a full time job, so even that might be a bit optimistic.
Keith, please could you be honest and let users know whether you are really committed to CheckBook, and if you are when we might realistically be looking at an update to V2. In my experience it is always better to be honest and realistic, than to make promises that you can not keep. If you want to placate users it might be an idea to invite users who have signed up to this forum to download an alpha or beta release, and make it very clear that this release may be buggy, have features missing, and not be ready to trust your data to. That way you are covered, but users can see that 2.0 is more than a couple of PhotoShop screenshots.
Nick