Justin, Thank you very much for helping convince MakeMusic to break the annual upgrade cycle. I am delighted that there won't be a Finale2013 this year and look forward to great things with the new 'release it when it's ready' mentality.
And I'm thrilled also that you're releasing an iPad app -- I hope it competes nicely with the current notation apps which are doing excellent things -- "Symphony Pro" and "Notion." I'm using them interchangeably to create initial arrangements when I'm away from home and then using MusicXML to export the pieces from the iPad to my computer and will be eager to see what your development team have come up with to compete. I hope it's not just a Finale version of Sibelius's Scorch, which is fine for playing and viewing files but not for creating or editing them. And thank you for being so open about all this -- I hope it represents a new era in Finale's concern for their end-users. Thank you! David H. Bailey On 5/30/2012 11:16 PM, Phillips, Justin wrote: > Between the number 13 and the Mayan Apocalypse, I thought we'd throw the > towel in this year :-). > > It is coincidence however that it happened to be what would have become > the "2013" version. We won't be moving back to the yearly release cycle > even after the next major release next year. > > We try to keep OS support as long as we can, but when it starts to become > difficult to develop for using the tools Apple suggests you use for 10.6, > 10.7 and 10.8, we have to stat moving away from it. We're at the point we > cannot make some needed technological updates and feature changes without > moving on. The other factor here is the low number of 10.5 and PPC users > we have currently. It's hard to justify development time and QA costs when > it gets under a handful of percentage points of users. This used to be not > as big of a deal when Apple charged much more for OS upgrades, but at $29, > people are moving to new versions much quicker and Apple is dropping > support for their older technologies faster than in the past. > > As for the plug-ins, we'll try and help with support of those as much as > we can. > -- David H. Bailey [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
