{"id":7651,"date":"2013-07-30T19:54:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T23:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7651"},"modified":"2016-12-28T10:11:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T15:11:54","slug":"bento-discontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/30\/bento-discontinued\/","title":{"rendered":"Bento Discontinued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/info.filemaker.com\/Bento_Statement.html\">FileMaker<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.app.net\/sw\/post\/8235293\">Simon Wolf<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/info.filemaker.com\/Bento_Statement.html\"><p>FileMaker will stop offering Bento Sept. 30, 2013, and will increase focus on FileMaker Product Line. [&#8230;] As part of our sharpened focus, we will stop further development of the Bento consumer products.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.app.net\/clarkgoble\/post\/8245398\">Clark Goble<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/alpha.app.net\/clarkgoble\/post\/8245398\"><p>The typical databases back in the day were contacts, tasks, events, passwords, and home inventory. There are excellent apps for all those vastly superior to what Bento could do. So why get Bento when 85% can be done better elsewhere?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2013-08-14): <a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/13978\">Adam C. Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/13978\"><p>There are limitations, though, since FileMaker Pro has no integration with the Mac Contacts, iCal, and iPhoto apps, nor does it offer Wi-Fi syncing between Mac and iOS versions. Plus, FileMaker Pro doesn&rsquo;t support Bento&rsquo;s Rating, Encrypted, Simple List, File List, and Message List field types, and Bento&rsquo;s Collections and Smart Collections have no direct equivalents in FileMaker Pro, although you can set up relationships instead.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>FileMaker&rsquo;s announcement is troubling from several viewpoints. Most notably, of course, is how at least hundreds of thousands of Mac and iOS users have been left high and dry, and not just for any old app, but for database software, which almost by definition holds important data.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>More generally, it&rsquo;s often said of free services, especially those from small companies, that you get what you pay for. But with Bento, it was quite reasonable to think that buying popular commercial software from Apple-subsidiary FileMaker would be a near guarantee of future-proofing &mdash; could it get any safer? 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