Visual Hub Goes Abandonware
Written by Kevin Fordham
It’s not unusual for software to be abandoned by its developer. Software developers move on, lose interest in the project, or otherwise don’t find the time to support or develop the software they created. That being said, it is unusual for a leader in a particular space to abandon their product. This very scenario happened today.
Techspansion, the developers behind Visual Hub, have called it quits. I’ve written about a few of Techspansion’s products here at Apple Mac HQ. Visual Hub is a dead simple piece of software I use to convert videos for my Apple TV. It is perhaps the best video conversion utility around and that’s why it came as such a surprise that the software is being abandoned. The website for Visual Hub has been stripped and the dmg file is no longer available for download. If you look hard enough, you can download it however. I downloaded a copy to serve as a backup in case I need to reinstall it (I bought it earlier this year).
It’s sad to see the developer abandon this great piece of software. Best of luck to him in his future endeavors!
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