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MindBender
Aug 12, 2011Aspirant
What happened to Orb?
Orb was one of the secondary reasons why I selected a ReadyNAS Pro 6 as my new NAS a couple of months ago. Unfortunately the joy was short lived: Orb was very unstable and producing a lot of exception...
MindBender
Nov 04, 2011Aspirant
Don_Pasquale wrote: I have pretty-good news regarding Orb... From an email reply I just received:
"We have developed a dedicated / optimized Orb Live iOS app for Orb Add-on and submitted the new App for App store.
I think it's safe to consider that vapor-ware now, 3 months later.
NetGear introduced the Orb add-on July 2010, but it broke down already 9 months later, while ReadyNAS machines were still advertised with it, and people still buying the now useless $10 iOS application.
There may be all kinds of good reasons for NetGear to drop Orb support, but doing it silently is a bloody shame.
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