Why You Should Be Concerned About Apple And Logic Options

[HiramAbiff]

1.) Apple's inistance on rewriting AU "authorization" - a complete surprise to end users and developers alike this action has caused no end of problems for the purchasers of Logic Pro 7. AU plugins that worked fine under OSX 3.x.x and Logic Pro 6 are now incompatible with LP7 for reasons absolutely mysterious to all. Some of the updates required (ie Waves 4.x - 5.x) end up costing the end users money. To date - no developer has released a non-beta version of AU plugins required to run on LP7.

2.) Apple's refusal to work with third party developers/end users before the release of new versions of Logic - Apple has some kind of misguided policy of not communicating with developers or users when their product will be released. This impacts end users in that they are forced to guess when to buy updates and if they guess wrong they are out hundreds of dollars. This especially goes for professionals who don't have time to surf the internet, perusing for rumours and innuendo. This impacts third-part developers in that they are forced to "crisis manage" when Apple releases a program that requires changes to thrid-pary software. Case in point: AU plugins.

3.) Apple's failure to beta test Logic software before releasing it - Has there ever been a Logic update (LP7) so bug ridden and sloppy? Not since I have been a user. I didn't pay $299 dollars to be a beta-tester.

4.) Apple's elimination of free tech support for Logic - Is anyone here going to pay $2799 per year for a service that was provided for free by Emagic? Does anyone think they should with the current bug-ridden state of LP7?

5.) Apple's refusal to provide a fair and equitable upgrade path to LP7 - how many people have I read about (including me) bought LP6 less than two months ago for $199 and are now forced to shell out another $299 for the LP7 update. This policy/ethos is unfair and unequitable impacting the pro users (ie the ones who shell out for each and every update) the most. The user who upgrades from LP6 to LP7 ends up paying $398 more dollars than the user who upgrades from LP5.x.