Is the divorce between Capture One and Phase One is going to affect future developments?

Ad everybody here knows, Capture One (C1) is born as a exclusive software to work on Phase One (P1) raw file.

They are now two separate compagnies, with the great benefit of the opening of C1 to other camera, but the struggle of many (human) ressources to the development of C1 as an open platform. Even more when an executive decision was made that C1 has to be a Lightroom challenger, with great assets up its sleeve but far fewer human resources than Adobe. The result is what lots us know, and is well reflected by the community forum: a lot of "AI" tools development, but many tools or functions largely non-functional or unfinished.

More recently, the good understanding between Fuji - which does not have a real Raw developer unlike Hasselblad - and C1 has demonstrated the responsiveness that the latter could have.

However, the historical partner remains P1, whose system is totally dependent on C1.
A first failure was the cessation of development of the "Capture Pilot" application, the latter having never worked directly with the Wifi module of the IQ4 back, although marketed as "Capture One Inside"! P1 having cobbled together an emergency solution with Cascable software.

The second catastrophic failure is the failed and unfinished implementation of the XT camera and Rodenstock lenses in C1, whose shift and tilt connectors promised, at the time of the XT release, a correction directly implemented in C1. This was never really the case and it is even less true with the latest series of tilt lenses.

It's now, in 2024, the 30th anniversary of Phase One, which could have suggested at least one major new feature, when everyone is speculating about a redesign of the XF body, a new XT XL camera or an IQ5 back with thousands of pixels breaking through the ceiling.

As a professional photographer who has invested huge sums in a Phase One system, I would have been satisfied with an updated firmware. At best, an IQ4+ back with functional wifi, an up-to-date logic card and an efficient and stable software part. But at the very least, an effective collaboration between P1 and C1, fixing the many bugs and delays accumulated in the development of C1 for P1 products.

When C1 customer service is contacted about these bugs, the response is that they now proceed by priority of the number of users by usage statistics or by voting system on their new feature implementation request site.

If these votes were multiplied by the price factor of each device, P1 products would still have a chance. The prohibitive price of this exceptional hardware then makes it by definition a niche market, and one can only understand a polite way for C1 to postpone any development for P1 to a later date, which does not exist.

If any other Phase One user have the same, or different, feelings, I would be happy to share thoughts on what is going to be the future for our hardly acquired Phase One products.