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Originally posted by pounce
full adc is apparently coming |
In October of 2004, why should this statement be reassuring to Logic users? If Logic 7 had *included* full ADC at release, it would still have been a year behind Logic's prime competitor, namely Nuendo/SX. The most requested new feature in DAWs is a year late compared to the competition, and official company policy is that employees are forbidden to even discuss the subject?
If this were Steinberg instead of Apple, the users would be freaking out along the lines of "How come they have time to create Garage Band, etc, but can't add ADC to what is supposed to be their flagship product?" In the 14 months or so that elapsed between Logic 6 and Logic 7, virtually every other DAW added full PDC. Logic would be the last, even if it had shipped with it. But that's OK, because it will probably show up sooner or later at some unspecified time? Only Apple gets away with that. Now come on, you know that's true.
IMHO, Apple gets a pass from it's customers on issues like this far too often, and it ends up helping no one. AMD, Intel, MS, Steinberg, etc all hear plenty of loud and clear feedback from their customers who are quick to sniff out B.S. Again, IMHO, Apple and it's customers would both benefit from the same. For instance, if AMD or Intel had *commited to* delivering machines at 3000 MHz by a certain date, then at the last minute come up 500 MHz short, those customers would have been rightfully vocal about it. However, when it's a G5, it's not really a big deal because we're sure that Apple meant well, and after all it's not their fault.
OK, I'll get off it now, but from the outside looking in, Apple's customers very often come off looking more like apologists than paying customers holding a corporation's feet to the fire. I don't think that helps either Apple or it's customers in the long term.