RE: SV: Apple Acquires Emagic

["Paul Weissman" <paul@nioterra.com>]

Wow... just, wow.

This is an incredible move for Apple.  I can't decide whether it's going to
be a good thing for them or not.  It seems they're attempting to reclaim
their lost leader position in the audio world, and I'm sure it'll work to
some extent given the number of faithful Logic users out there... but it
makes me wonder...

Couldn't this be just the break that Steinberg needs to step up and take
over the entire PC marketplace?  And might Emagic not end up losing half
their customers to CubaseSX?  I wonder if Digidesign will try and make 
extra
effort in the PC market now?

If Apple's play _does_ work, you certainly won't have to worry about people
halting development work on Apple audio software anymore.  It seems like
that's the whole point of this, to bolster confidence in the Apple platform
in the audio community.

> Oh poor PC users.  They hardly have any software.

Regardless of the platform they use, it's hard not to feel somewhat bad for
folks who are probably really dedicated to Logic, pretty much being
abandoned.

Paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Sottilaro [mailto:sine@zerocrossing.net]
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 12:13 PM
> To: loopers
> Subject: Re: SV: Apple Acquires Emagic
>
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>
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> Per Boysen wrote:
>
> >
> > But I must say I'm curious to see what Logic for OS X will look
> like and if
> > there might be a Apple OS X for Intel machines coming out in a
> near future.
>
> When Apple got Steve Jobs back, there was a version of the
> NextStep OS (which
> OSX is based on) that was ready to run on Intel boxes.  Apple
> announced that
> OSX would be released for BOTH platforms.  Yeah, that's right
> folks.  Both.  I
> think they realized that they make most of their money on
> hardware, so they
> scrapped the Intel version.   A damn shame for Intel box owners.
> Imagine being
> able to have the best commercial OS in the world run on cheap
> hardware?  Oh
> well.
>
> >
> > As curious as I'm also pissed of by corporate strategies of this kind.
> > Needless to say there are a lot of sad and angry PC users
> around the world
> > today.
>
> Oh poor PC users.  They hardly have any software.  Software
> companies never
> just stop development of Mac software.  Sorry for the sarcasm,
> but this stuff
> has been happening to Mac users for years and years, so it's hard
> to hear the
> other side complain.  Suck it up and buy a Mac.
>
> Mark Sottilaro
>
>