With that said, we are mostly moving to Flex/AIR. I wonder if AIR signals the death of all 3rd-party SWF wrapper products?

Thanks for the clarification on all those points.

It will indeed be interesting to see what MDM does with the release of Air 2.0. I’m afraid that innovation by itself won’t be enough next time around though, because after the shambles that is V3 they will also need to ensure that whatever it turns out to be is absolutely bullet-proof.

MDM licensed a piece of technology from Xtrabass which enabled them to make synchronous commands work on OS X.
They opted for only a key piece of what Xtrabass had in the hope they could develop all the actual MDMScript commands themselves in-house.

However, with little to no proper Mac software development skills in house (and I’ll refrain from mentioning the developers name as he is a really nice chap, just lacking dev skills on Mac), MDM’s Zinc v2 on OS X was very buggy and lacked the support the product needed.

MDM lacked the drive to ask/get/pay Xtrabass to help sort their product and instead looked to Zinc v3 with new developer(s) (as you state, Kevan AFAIK) relying on no third party licences or royaltee payments.
On the whole I think this started well for MDM. What has happened since then is anyone’s guess.

The general consensus seems to be (for the people who have ever used MDM software) that the amount of bugs MDM software has just simply isnt acceptable, especially for the money they charge.
How or why this has been the case is a little unnerving, sure, for any new MDM products, but that isnt to say MDM are not addressing the issues or perhaps learning from past mistakes.

And lastly, lets not forget, what with AIR 2.0, pretty much everything Zinc and Inferno does is not needed anymore, so will be interesting if MDM can really innovate now anyway.