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Originally Posted by Nuno_F  That's nonsense. Try to get a PCI card from a company that no longer exists fixed. As soon as you need a chip containing some software that only they had you are screwed. Your argument applies to all modern digital equipement, yet it is only a problem with dongles. |
It is obviously a bigger problem with dongles. A dongle doesn't add any worth to my sequencer or plugin. Not even remotely.
It *might* add some worth for the developer, but for me as a user, it doesn't. Yet, when I lose something absolutely worthless to me, I can't use my sequencer anymore.
That's just ridiculous.
And anyway, we're not even talking about parts that can't be replaced anymore. You can buy Syncrosoft dongles. But in case Steinberg was out of the market, you still couldn't run Cubase on them anymore, even if you bought it, even with completely intact dongle hardware.
It's completely beyond me how you fail to see that your comparisons are absolutely invalid.
- Sascha