- Company A sells software product for once-off fee. The product requires access to Company A's servers in order to operate.
- Company B acquires Company A.
- Company B discontinues Company A's product and shuts down their servers thereby rendering the product useless to all existing customers.
- Company B releases a "new" product whose functionality and interface are suspiciously similar to that of the discontinued product.
- Company A: CloudBrain and their product TidySongs
- Company B: RealNetworks and their "new" product Rinse
In November 2010 I bought TidySongs from CloudBrain for EUR35.68. TidySongs automatically organizes your iTunes library by removing duplicates, fixing spellings, filling in blank fields and adding missing album art. It had received mostly favorable reviews. Now, when I open TidySongs I get an error stating that it cannot connect to TidySongs' server.
Their website states that TidySongs has been discontinued. They link to a product called Rinse from RealNetworks that sells for $39. It too organizes your iTunes library by removing duplicates, fixing spellings, filling in blank fields and adding missing album art. They could at least have changed the interface a little.
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