Caffeine Software, Inc. has suspended operations. A notice on their website states: "We regret any inconvenience to our customers as a result of this." No further information was available. Caffeine was the developer of , a shareware image display and organization application for Mac OS X.
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If anyone from Caffeine reads this, please find a way to keep TIFFany on the market and at a lower price than was before. Open Source it, sell it to Apple, or just do something with it, but don't let it die.
Finally caught up to you Stan, eh?
Tiffany was a fantastic product, more so several years ago when compared to Photoshop at that time. What a sad world it is in "IT Land" - the better products rarely win the race. How ironic that in this case, Apple/Adobe played the role of Microsoft...
These guys were around since the days of NeXTStep (or at least OpenStep). Their free PixelNhance was being included on new Macs. I'm wondering if maybe Apple has bought them to include with iPhoto, or perhaps a pro image-editing app...
TIFFany was a trashy app that didn't conform very nicely to the Mac OS X environment. They should have taken a lesson from the folks at Omni Group who knew very well how to adapt their old NeXT stuff to work properly and attractively with the new operating system. The folks at Caffeine failed to do so. They also apparently didn't know how to market their product at a reasonable price.
Thank god the company is finally dead. Good bye, Caffeine Software, you will not be missed.
Yes..always nice to see another Mac developer die.
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"Yes..always nice to see another Mac developer die."
Yes, in fact it is nice to see the s*** get cleared off the Mac scene. Very true indeed. Excellent point.
I think people who gave a cursoty look at TIFFany might think it was overpriced and assumed it was geared towards a lower-end market, but it does a lot of stuff that even Photoshop can't do. I find myself working between the two apps a lot since obviously PS does stuff it can't do too. When you consider it as a competitor to Photoshop, it makes more sense why it might have struggled against the 800 lbs. gorilla of Mac image editing (TIFFany has been around for a long time for NeXT) but also its price was very competitive.
The GUI was heavily dependent on a lot of NeXT concepts, especially the shelf. I think given more resources to develop it, they would have adapted the GUI more completely towards OS X. They seemed to make a big stride at around 3.5, but their attention seemed to be on Curator since it got a lot more attention from users.
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Tiffany was their flagship product. Which was pretty good but they were charging too much given what the competion was offering. Shame to see them go...