Carodan, I don't know how quickly we're likely to see another product like Apollo Maximus.

Creating something like that requires both a great deal of artistic skill and a great deal of technical proficiency.  Not many people have both of these qualities, in even moderate amounts.

Plus, as we have seen, even if you sweat and labor to produce a superior product in this market, there is no guarantee it will be snapped up or that your efforts will be rewarded. Quite the opposite. In fact, there are a couple of rules that seem to hold true in the tech industry generally:

• Marketing muscle trumps product quality nearly every time.
• The best prisons are not built with iron bars and stone walls, but with backwards compatibility.

If I had the skill and technical chops to duplicate the kind of work Anton did, I wouldn't do it, seeing the problems he's had. I'd feel that way even if there was no threat of skullduggery by existing vendors!

• Jimdoria  ~@>@