Well, one good thing about the MacIntels is that it shouldn't be too
hard to set up a dual-boot OS X/WinXP machine. I don't relish running
Finale under Windows -- in fact, I would consider that a *terrible*
non-solution to the challenge of the Intel switch and fervently hope
MM doesn't abandon the Mac platform -- but it sure beats having to
switch to Windows altogether.
- Darcy
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On 24 Nov 2005, at 1:06 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 24.11.2005 John Howell wrote:
> This matches very closely the relative download percentages of
Patterson Plug-Ins by platform.
Sounds like an answer. Would any company willingly discard 25% of
its customer base? They'd have to be awfully foolish, or awfully
short on development funds. Of course it's possible that
MakeMusic is both!
I think, the real question is whether the amount of money put into
the conversion to Intel Macs will pay back in a given time (the
time does depend on the long term policy of the company). In the
case of Finale, from all I have heard, the effort to convert to
Intel is huge. Apparently larger than the move from OS9 to X. Given
that that change took MakeMusic longer than almost any other
software developer I do have some doubts - but also some hopes.
To be honest, I don't really blame them. It's partly Apple's fault
for having two such huge changes (three if you count the move to
the PPC chips) in a relatively short time. Personally I think Apple
should have gone "dual-processor" when they introduced OS X.
Publically, that is, not secretly as they did.
For myself I have decided to use my iBook until it becomes too
outdates (in 2-3 years?) and then rethink. By that time either I
know that Finale will be going MacIntel, and I will also know
whether the Mac platform has caught up in Audio Editing (ie if
there is a Mac alternative to SeQuoia). If either of these
questions will be answered with "no", then I will leave Apple. It's
something I am not looking forward to, but it is also the last time
I can make that decision, before I invest too much into a platform
that doesn't support the kind of software I need.
Johannes
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