Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

On Mar 23, 2005, at 5:23 AM, GAmoore@... wrote:

>
>  In a message dated 3/22/05 11:59:17 AM, maurits@... writes:
>
> > Most of the features added were things that were blatantly
>  > missing in the initial release.
>
>  That doesn't matter. You didn't buy those features in the first 
> release.

Exactly.


>  Apple and Jobs were running around touting X as the greatest thing 
> since the light bulb - not really being honest that there were a lot 
> of limitations, bottlenecks, and so forth. Then when Jaguar came out 
> they said was so much faster it was like a hardware upgrade, then the 
> same thing when Panther came out. So in other words they turned out 
> mediocre software to begin with but touted it as great. They did the 
> same thing when the PowerPC came out 1994. For years later they were 
> still converting code from 68000 to PowerPc.
>
>  Its the marketing/dishonesty which is the issue. As you know, you 
> can't buy software and try it out then decide. You buy it on the hype, 
> then deal with it.

This seems to totally disregard the obvious reality that it is an 
ongoing process and in the computer world that the "best" of any 
particular item 2000 is going to be downright pathetic when compared to 
the 2005 version of the same item.

Why does everybody expect that the developers are just going to work 
for free,  why should they do anything to improve this stuff if nobody 
feels they should buy it.


>  I still have a Tibook 550mhz and running Panther even is so slow that 
> as to be unbelievable ... the endless colored beachball... something 
> that didn't happen on the machine I upgraded from..a g3/333 powerbook. 
> That tibook is primarily used as a $3000 paperweight now, while I 
> write this on an ibook.

Hmmm.  My wife is running the latest OSX on a 500mhz G3 ibook and she 
does not have any complaints.