Cashing in or just cashing out?
I understand that there is a lot of money and sensationalism surrounding the prospect of using your product "Parallels Desktop" to run Windows on a MacBook laptop computer. I am happy for this, as clearly it is allowing for the further development of a fine product.
However, I believe that it is important to note that you do still have a responsibility to your PC customers as well. I understand that the Mac and PC versions will develop at different paces... especially when one version is going to thrive in the general user market. Hell, I know there are many more customers with Macs trying to run Windows than Windows users trying to run Linux, Solaris, etc; but the current state of things makes your company look like it's simply chasing dollar signs.
I feel that it is very easy, if not impossible, to slip into chasing the cash cow, and I feel that this needs to be addressed. Take care not to frustrate the other half of your customers through neglect. I can only hope that the feature sets in the PC and Mac versions will converge soon, and I hope the PC version cost increases as well. It's only fair.
Anyway... it's only one feature. (Complete by the end of the quarter, perhaps?)
(Do you guys have a production schedule / gantt chart? Can you give some sort of *accurate* prediction?)
Cheers. Hope to hear something positive from you guys @ Parallels!
