| I take it personally because I don't like the marketing strategy. I've read a number of pieces that do hint at a close collaboration between apogee and mac for the duet. It seems like a ploy to get folks to move towards apple by enticing them with gadgets that fit a real need, but only if you use certain hardware. Like I said before though, the Duet would be perfect for what I need: small, light, bus powered, no BS I/O, etc. No one else has anything like it for the price, they are dead on with this marketing point.
I don't really care for windows and all their anti-trust crap either. They tried to muscle everyone else out just like Apogee seems to be doing with Apple now. It's just that I have all my programs/settings/hardware based on windows and I don't have the cash to obtain a mac laptop let alone another expensive software suite, which is exactly what I feel they intend for me to do. I don't like practically being told that I am not using the *correct* hardware/software. I use what I feel works best for me as should any Mac user should feel if it works for them.
They have other products that use similar technology and they have fully developed mac AND windows drivers. Since these are ports to intel architecture already, it wouldn't be much to go the rest of the way to port some windows drivers as well. I work in electronics and work with software/firmware developers daily so I know that once the framework is complete, it's not *that* hard to port to a different OS. It certainly doesn't take a room full of engineers months to port to a different OS, I see single engineers do it in very little time at all.
Before anyone gives me the "if you don't like it, don't buy it" stuff, I'll tell you that is exactly what is going to happen. I'm just peeved that I see something very perfect for what I need and I have to settle for something less. |