i don't think they actually have programmers per se, as an ongoing serious software company would. i think the scope of producing an in house app is beyond them. these guys always acted like marketers of someone else's products, and not the most responsive marketers at that. when the product was gone - so was their reason for being, in the consumers' eyes.
what amazes me are the steps they didn't take to protect themselves from the loss of ft. they could've had another app and a whole new ultra high speed proprietary network ready and waiting for roll-out if the day came when they needed it, with a million people and xmillion files eager to jump on. they could've cleanly broken from kazaa and gone independent and taking a page from ft, sold their code to other companies too. they coulda been a contender...
they knew this was coming but just watched as the business evaporated. there's a strange and wonderfull story there just waiting for someone to write.
- js.
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