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By Tony Mobily
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 20:15
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Apollo wins every software award in the world. Really!

The title of this blog entry is obviously sarcastic: we released Apollo at the end of July, and enjoyed talking to our early users. Since launching Apollo, we have received a lot of positive feedback, and... no negative comments. People told us about missing features they were missing, but that's been it: nobody ever said that Apollo was bad in any way. In fact, nobody said anything bad about it!

Then we decided that it was time to enter some software awards.

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By Tony Mobily
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 17:13
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Good software doesn't mean incomplete software

Imagine for one second that you had to make a choice. On your left, you have an incredibly complex machine with 100 different flashing buttons and indicators and LEDs and -- why not? -- a lot of beeping noises. On your right, you have a very simple panel with five buttons, no noise, and only a couple of analog instruments.

Those two machines have something very important in common. Can you see what it is?

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