I can give an ex-employee perspective. I left 9 years ago but the company has many of the same staff and Freeway is still the main product.
I’ve not actually used Freeway “in anger” for quite some time but have been in occasional touch with my remaining friends at Softpress
Cashflow was always an issue. But so also was the ever-changing Mac OS. Whether that was OS9 or Mac OS X.
During my time at Softpress, there aways seemed to be at least one engineer (that’s maybe 25% of the engineering workforce) given over to re-writing parts of Freeway because of APIs that Apple were either removing, changing or adding to the OS. That’s at least 25% of engineering given over to merely “keeping up”, let alone writing new features.
It might be that the current difficulty was brought about by a combination of poor cashflow (always an issue with small companies) and some major API changes required by Freeway to ensure future compatibility.
James
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