BlockBase & Classic Appliqué Add Ons - Why buy?

I just received an email from a quilter looking to purchase The Electric Quilt Company's BlockBase program. I've known for sometime now that The Electric Quilt Company has not re-produced the program. Actually the message on their website says, "This product is on permanent back-order until further notice." Now, I am not quite sure what it means when something is on "permanent back-order" but I have a feeling it really means, "We aren't planning to release it again unless the demand is so overwhelming we would be stupid not to."

I have thought a lot about The Electric Quilt Company as I was winding down my business and I began to wonder how they would respond to today's rapid changes in computer technology. As "Cloud" computing gathers steam and as people turn to smartphones and tablets, the view is desk top computers with their gigabytes of memory will be history. This is why I believe EQ7 will be the last full blown quilt design program released "for purchase" by The Electric Quilt Company. Instead, I see quilters subscribing to use any future program release on The Electric Quilt Company's own servers - yep, in the cloud!