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sw
    Having founded (still manage) BentoUsers.com this is sad: http://info.filemaker.com/Bento_Statement.html However they seemed to lose interest a while back.
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        bestoftimes
          @sw it’s a real shame Filemaker are withdrawing Bento as it did some things very well. There must be a case for treating Filemaker like Aperture and lowering the price a little.
            clarkgoble
              @sw @uliwitness I thought Bento was selling well. It got good reviews.
                sw
                  @clarkgoble @uliwitness I wonder if there was a conflict of interested between how far they could go with Bento and not cannibalise FileMaker Pro sales. Limited resources might also have been an issue. iCloud messed up contacts and calendar integration.
                    clarkgoble
                      @sw @uliwitness Yeah. I suspect that's true. I was a FileMaker Pro user but I reached that point where it was just easier to write inventory programs in Cocoa using CoreData.
                        sw
                          @clarkgoble @uliwitness That's exactly why I eventually lost interest in Bento (along with the limitations such as a hobbled relational model).
                            clarkgoble
                              @sw @uliwitness However I'd imagine power users willing to learn programming are a distinct minority. It seemed to me that Bento was the perfect app for the causal database users. I bet part of the problem was so many custom apps for what you'd use it for.
                                clarkgoble
                                  @sw @uliwitness The typical databases back in the day were contacts, tasks, events, passwords, and home inventory. There are excellent apps for all those vastly superior to what Bento could do. So why get Bento when 85% can be done better elsewhere?
                                    fflavio
                                      @sw That’s a pain. I use Bento constantly, has served me well in spite of its being crippled on purpose.