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I think what Bob's saying is that when a monopolistic host, such as Apple, begins to compete directly with it's core 3rd party developers, it's only a matter of time before those developers hedge the bets on their own survival by diversifying. I think he's right, as usual.
I've been saying since the day Apple bought Emagic, that it's only a matter of time before Digi heavily hedges it's bets and gets Win XP to *at least* full parity with OSX support. That's a dual issue....app and plugins. The logistics of a whole new OS from Apple have undoubtedly slowed that down a bit, as they must cater to their current customer base, but I continue to believe we will see Digi push XP development heavily. And the fact is, assuming equal PT software revisions and plugin support, Pro Tools is going to run at every bit as well on a solid XP machine as it will on the equivalent OSX G5, whatever emotional attachment one may have to either platform.
And now for a somewhat overlooked fact, I believe. What is the only "high end" TDM plugin company to have identical support for OSX and WinXP on *all* of it's premiere plugins? If you guessed "Bomb Factory", you're correct. Hmmmm, which plugin company was it that Digi just unexpectedly aquired? And I suppose the source code to that large array of plugins, ported to both platforms with identical functionality, would pretty much be a "how to" manual, if you were interested in such things.
I think that's a least a little of the pragmatic side of the idea Bob is presenting.
Regards,
Brian T
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