> One more thing, (sorry for this extra) company's main priority is to
> satisfy
> the customers, but by doing something like dropping all support on a
> bunch
> of popular products (theo) makes customers angry, and wont buy from
> it.
> Thanks a lot my major school project is going to be late if it does go
> unsupported anytime in the near future.
For good support, go to Parallax. Their support is superb. I don't
really like the Basic Stamp 2 but their Propeller chip is fantastic,
once you get past the fact that there is no built-in A:D or D:A. There
is enough in their object library to do almost anything you want to do.
I have asked Parallax to do a version of their BoeBot with a Propeller
and then put a decent A:D chip on the board with support libraries.
With something like that I can get back to teaching robotics to the
kids at school.
BTW, until today's announcement I was planning to expand my use of the
OOPic at our school. Several of my students have purchased MarkIIIs
and other OOPic-powered 'bots. I was even considering replacing all
our BoeBots with ooBugs. It would be perfect for my classes.
But how can I trust Savage to support me? They have just dropped my
current environment on its face.
To Savage Innovations: you know, it would have been so simple. All you
had to do was do one last fix of core functionality (events comes to
mind here) THEN announce that you are going to end-of-life all the old
products but you will release the occasional bug fix. You would have
kept everyone on board I bet.
--
Brian Lloyd Granite Bay Montessori
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