It’s so sad when businesses struggle, for whatever reason.
The Iconfactory may be an early victim of AI, but I doubt they will be the last. Once Apple Intelligence Siri arrives, and app intents allows it to take actions on our behalf, how often will people use the actual apps?
I believe for longer than many imagine. 
We’ll find out in good time, but many hi tech obituaries have turned out to be premature- email, paper files, cameras, printed books are some that come to mind. Nothing lasts forever, but often the ones that survive are the ones we thought wouldn’t and the ones that die are unexpected.
True. I’ve always considered email the cockroach of the Internet, it’s a survivor.
I feel for them. Many years ago, my dad—a farmer—had to sell his small family farm because massive, unpredicted currency changes wiped out that year’s profits. I was too young to understand what was happening at the time, but I remember how hard he worked and how it all ended in nothing. He ended up better off financially, and just before he passed away, I asked him if he regretted selling the farm. He said that he enjoyed not being poor all the time, and he loved that he and mum could afford to travel to the UK and Ireland to visit me and my family. Yet, all he ever really wanted was to be a farmer.
I don’t want to diminish the stress that that Ged and his colleagues are going through, but people are resilient, and the real world plays dice with all of our lives, but we all adapt and move on because we don’t have any other choice. I wish them all the best of luck.
Huge bummer. I use Triode every day and it is one of the apps they’ve put up for sale.