{"id":23939,"date":"2019-01-14T14:20:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T19:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23939"},"modified":"2019-01-14T14:20:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T19:20:33","slug":"closing-down-coriolis-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/14\/closing-down-coriolis-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing Down Coriolis Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coriolis-systems.com\/blog\/2019\/1\/closing-down\">Alastair Houghton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/coriolis-systems.com\/blog\/2019\/1\/closing-down\">\n<p>The shift to APFS and the continuing lock down of the platform have meant that our existing products have become obsolete and their sales have declined to a trickle. Perhaps, if the full APFS documentation had been released somewhat before users&rsquo; machines were converted over to it, things might be different &mdash; though even then I&rsquo;m not sure Apple&rsquo;s current focus on security is conducive to a viable market for third-party utility software, solid state storage really doesn&rsquo;t require defragmenting in 99% of cases and in all likelihood the Mac line will at some point shift to ARM at which point you won&rsquo;t be able to run Windows on it except through emulation, which will substantially reduce the market for partitioning tools also.<\/p>\n<p>Aura, our AC-3 compatible real-time encoder, doesn&rsquo;t sell in any volume, and right now Coriolis isn&rsquo;t covering its costs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/22\/idefrag-and-ipartition-discontinued\/\">iDefrag and iPartition Discontinued<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alastair Houghton: The shift to APFS and the continuing lock down of the platform have meant that our existing products have become obsolete and their sales have declined to a trickle. Perhaps, if the full APFS documentation had been released somewhat before users&rsquo; machines were converted over to it, things might be different &mdash; though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-01-14T19:20:35Z","apple_news_api_id":"9b96f450-f510-4ae5-b4b4-ce005ffb9937","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-01-14T19:20:36Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Am5b0UPUQSuW0tM4AX_uZNw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1395,101,368,1577,30,32,1609,1451],"class_list":["post-23939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-apple-file-system-apfs","tag-business","tag-idefrag","tag-ipartition","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-14","tag-sunset"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23940,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23939\/revisions\/23940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}