After a really long series of betas,
Carbonite for Mac is finally launched and off to a strong start. I have
to confess that this product has been a lot longer in coming than I had
ever expected. We actually had a working version over a year ago, but
when we put it out to the Mac community the feedback was that it had
too much of the look and feel of a Windows product. So we decided to
assemble a new development team composed only of Mac fanatics and they
completely redesigned the interface. We put the resulting new version
into beta again about 4 months ago, and this time the reaction from the
Mac community has been great. "Simple and intuitive, just like the
Mac," one beta user wrote to me. "I like the set-and-forget aspect of
Carbonite. I'm am so tired of messing around with Time Machine, and
it's half the price," said another.
The release of Carbonite
for Mac completes a long cycle for me. Back in 2005, one of the events
that got Jeff and me to start Carbonite was my daughter's hard drive
crashing. As a Mac user, she's been waiting a long time. I've been a
Windows guy for years, but I now have both a Mac and Windows machine on
my desk and I can understand why my kids have migrated to the Mac –
it's a great machine.
— Dave
CEO, Carbonite