Comments on: iambic CEO Apologizes, Relinquishes Controversial Domains

Now that we got what we wanted, the people who are still protesting are going to find a lot less support. It's like that one guy at party who's still dancing while everyone else has their coats on and is saying goodnight.

It's over. The good guys won, the bad guys lost.

I'll never patronise Iambic again. Damage is done, apology or no apology.

It was a slimy move in which they deserve to get flamed for.

After the space of a week's furore among Palm users and numerous petitions they finally came to their senses. I think it could've been sooner, sure, but the point is that they did an about-turn.

Damage has been done.
They backed out their original position since they are not as big as like Microsoft, a giant company who could afford the whole world's bashing.

if you lose customers like this, you will lose a whole lot in this small Palm community.

Do do they think they are, Microsoft?

I for one will not deal with this company, EVER.

How dare they suspend forum rights of REGISTERED customers because they spoke up about this? If a registered customer of Iambic's products was outraged by this then obviously it was pretty bad.

Letting companies get away with crap like this means that others will do the same. We should not lie down and take this.

At least You arent PPC users. I know why color pictures are so important to them on a PDA. They need to have smut wherever they go 24/7. How dare one of their kind post on this board.

Recap Fact: A number of visitors to sites where Palm products are discussed, such as PIC, posted their disgust at the cybersqatting carried out by Iambic. Criticism on forums controlled by Iambic were removed.
That kind of behaviour is commonly called censorship, and while not illegal does show a commitment by Iambic to silence its critics in a manner calculated to show potential customers only the “good news” about its products.

Recap Fact: Iambic at first defended their Cybersqatting, and has now made remarks of an apologetic nature and have taken steps to release the domain names.
This kind of apology should be enough to placate the community of Palm users who were righteously indignant that they should be treated with such disdain by Iambic, whose software by all accounts is a good product.

For myself, this apology reeks, not because I think it insincere, but because it stands in such unremarkable contrast to the defense they made of their actions.
They tarnished themselves with little regard for the community of registered users on their forums, their competitors or the relative worth of their own product.
It will be some time before I forgive them.

Cybersquatting *IS* illegal. How many times do people have to say this before anyone listens?

Do a simple search on the Internet for the AntiCybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) of 1999 and you will quickly discover that it was created specifically to cover cases such as this. Iambic *HAD* to apologize and release the domain names or risk fines of $100,000 or more.

If they spent as much time ironing out bugs and improving the UI as they do on adding increasingly useless features, perhaps they might produce software worth installing.

www.iambic.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=1426

If this is true and not just huff from a whiney twit, nategall will quickly also find himself saying hello to a $100,000 fine for violating the anticybersquatting law.

Couldn't happen to a finer gent.

I agree it is time to move on. For days, you all asked for an apology and for iambic to give up the domains. They did that. Now you want more?

I'm beginning to think you won't be satisfied until the CEO commits harakiri so he can make it right with his ancestors.

This is fun, isn't it? )

i sent them an email a couple hours ago, asking them to lift my ban. we'll see what happens.

No, no we wouldn't.

>No one (except PPC users) would be PROTESTING.

If you honestly believe that you are a very sad and pathetic person.

>Give me a break, you all are idiots for
>"never again buying a Iambic product".

Hey, if it counts any, I never would have bought an Iambic product before this latest fiasco because of their long history of fraud and deception (like, say, changing Action Names' name to Action Names Datebook, or telling their own customers to blame Pimlico because they were no longer releasing the free program that fixed an Action Names conflict with Datebook+ whereby all alarms played twice -- mainly because Pimlico fixed the problem in DateBk and no longer had to release it, and Iambic never bothered to fix it while Pimlico had a free fix).

Purchase either DOCS to Go or QuickSheet for a spreadsheet program and get rid of Tiny Sheet

Purchase Datebk4 because it is capable of a TON more than Action Names and it is the SAME price. I remember when Action Names was 15 bucks and it is now 25.

Let IAMBIC concentrate on GAMES.

I say: You are a suc*er. I would like to appologize. "And the fact that I apologized is enough to show the high moral level of me", isn't it so?

I appologize again.

Signed by Anonymous.

PalmGear did not disclose what criteria they use to screen the submissions, but my impression is that harsh and comparative statements (e.g. the xyz function is miserable compared to that of ABC application) will have a less chance of appearing at PalmGear.

This is one of the reason why I am not posting any more at PalmGear.

www.handango.com

Including or not including you? I would just like to know whether to categorize you under "Moving On With Life" or "Not Moving On With Life".

That is such crap. Look everyone, God has joined the forum.

"That is such crap. Look everyone, God has joined the forum."

It's a sad statement on your own morals that you would demean someone else for having some. Very sad.

"I just came by this page to see what all the new comments were over what I read last Friday, and wow! sure is sad to see it become into the typical PIC flaming of other users thread. are some people in love with Iambic that they feel the need to criticize anyone that says that they did not care for their actions? it sure is interesting, the difference here and at PDABuzz, where the bulk of the thread about the apology from Iambic is people agreeing that they will not forget this easily. interesting that all those that post otherwise are only on here where they can post without names (yes, me also). What a statement about American business that its just expected that they would behave this way. just as someone would say that 90% of people have pirated software (is there data that says that?) and even if they did, that wouldn't make what iambic did right. what's that saying, two wrongs don't make it right? I am glad to see the message from the one person who says they are not like that, even if others did not like it. not everyone cares only about making money."

A few points to make: first, just because the posts here are mostly anonymous (more out of convenience than anything else) doesn't mean that they are somehow less sensible or defensible than those at PDABuzz or other fora. Second, one could very much ask the same of you: are you in love with Pimlico such that you feel the need to criticize those who think cybersquatting is less of a deal than some people have made it out to be?

Iambic was wrong. No question about it. But quit acting as if they were Microsoft itself. They don't deserve their (very good, in my opinion) software being boycotted because of mere cybersquatting, not when they even backed out on that. Microsoft has done much worse, including illegal tying practices and NDAs that restrict competition. In fact, so have many other software companies. So why are some people acting as if they were the Devil incarnate, not to be touched with a ten-foot pole?

If you ask me, the gentleman who said that banning registered users from Iambic forums is a much worse offence than cybersquatting is perfectly right. Cybersquatting is simply not a big enough deal to merit the kind of boycotting that I see users fuming about, despite Iambic's apology.