This is not to say that we've abandoned the Mac OS. However, we make the decision knowing that most of our users will ultimately be better served as we refocus on the aggressive further development of MediaShout on the Windows side. We completely understand your disappointment in not getting this product, and can only share that our disappointment in not delivering this project for you is just as great. We make this decision to not move forward with the Mac project with the knowledge that we did everything within our capability to deliver a product worthy of our users and their ministries.

The estimate came to at least twice what we had already invested ? a figure our best sales estimates can't come close to justifying. We then did a thorough evaluation of the work required to complete the project, and the projected costs of this work. This time Apple conducted a comprehensive evaluation of our code and proposed potential solutions to the performance limitations. But again, the work stalled early this year when we ran into additional operating system and QuickTime limitations that prevented the program from delivering the level of performance for all the MediaShout features demanded by our users. A few months into the development we discovered limitations in the Mac OS that would require extensive custom workarounds and high-end programming that our programmers could not provide.Īfter more meetings with Apple, we started over with a new design and new programmers.

With their assurances that they could, we began the work. This has been a very difficult decision to make: not only because of the great amount of time and money we've poured into the Mac project over the past three years, but because many users have been counting on something we've promised that is now not possible to deliver.īefore work began on the project almost three years ago, we met with Apple executives and engineers to determine whether OS X and QuickTime could deliver the on-the-fly video transitions and text-over-video rendering at the performance level our users demand. This special announcement is to let you know that we have stopped work on a Mac OS version of MediaShout. Dear MediaShout Users, Resellers and Friends:

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