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jmarkham.
with great respect lets look at the big picture in all this.
and it all goes back to microsofts shrewd original product strategy .
with windows whether by design or planning.
a common platform was established.
adopted all over the world.
it was always the dream of many puter vendors to establish
this type of "control point" and "lock in" marketing wise.
windows has achieved this , but its a problem for developers that offer products for this
platform.
viz...its a very competitive arena. cos there are so many players
for this common platform.
thus any developer BEFORE offering a product on the platform will have to realise the downsides. one being how does one protect ones product without alienating users ??
this is one reason years back when i was frustrated with daw offerings and thinking of doing my own daw i decided against it. for the following reasons.
1. it was a level playing field OS wise.
2. it was likely to become very competitive. cos every one uses the same MS supplied
api's..app programming interfaces.
3. the problem of protecting ones application without alienating users.
if i were to do it today the only way i might do it is build my own included daw OS.
(so i didnt have to build in protection mechanisms that might alienate users.)
but that in itself is a problem cos it might not be successfull if the sound device vendors dont come on board.
as you can see the PROBLEM with a common OS is how do people that build applications for such
earn profit from their ventures ?? its a catch 22 with no resolution.
some companies of course manage to.
to be fair to companies that have built in protection mechanisms, its because
this level playing field has been established.
of course any which way the game is played...windows wins.
cos it provides the common platform.
and the application developers are squeezed by red hot competition and various other factors to be fair.
i'll leave you to read between the lines.
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