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Originally posted by Bob Olhsson
Apple moving into audio and video can only be interpreted as acts of desperation because it kills the incentive for developers. |
Very good description! Apple is really trying to close it's platform and will probably piss off more and more developers. Maybe in a not so distant future we have a hermetic platform Apple with it's own apps and no third party developments and a quite open Windows platform with a broad set of developers on the other side. Sadly enough many MAC 'believers' don't realize these serious developments.
Personally I worked on both platforms many years and shift more and more work from MACs to PCs. Apple is not a platform I want to rely on in the future (working since 1990 with MACs).
The Digidesign MAC OS X situation concerning PT Mix cards and Panther on G4's is exactly one of these things I wouldn't miss. Even PT TDM is reported to run very well on XP these days. Digidesign would be mad if they don't think about Windows as the main platform for them in the future.