Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

On Apr 14, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Bill Canty wrote:

> Along that line of thought, note the sentence that I've capitalized 
> from
> this http://www.macosxrumors.com/ report:
>
> "Firstly, sources definitely confirm that Tiger build 8A428 has been
> declared Golden Master, while first builds of Mac OS X 10.4.1 update
> have already appeared. However, we received several very negative
> reports about recent builds of Tiger, including the Golden Master 
> build.
> Some sources qualified the Golden Master build as “beta” quality
> software. This is probably one of the reasons why there was some
> confusion over the release date of Tiger last month. As we had
> speculated, APPLE AGAIN SEEMS TO FAVOUR A RELEASE STRATEGY WHEREBY IT
> RELEASES SOFTWARE EARLY AND FOLLOWS IT UP QUICKLY WITH BUG-FIXING MINOR
> RELEASES. We expect 10.4.1 to quickly follow Tiger’s release — maybe in
> time for WWDC."

Well, I for one commend Apple's strategy to releasing software.  Sure, 
when they first release a MAJOR update, it seems really buggy and many 
people have problems with it, but they work really hard at getting most 
of the bigger problems and bugs fixed quickly after the software's 
initial release.  As to what happened with applying this method to 
Logic 7.0, I don't think anyone knows what happened for sure.  (If 
anyone does, please feel free to let us all know)  The reason they 
probably use this method is so that they can isolate problems on many 
different systems that are set up in "real world" situations, rather 
than getting every little bug worked out on the beta tester's systems, 
then releasing it only to find out they have a critical error with many 
of the "real world" systems out there.  If I were Apple, I know I would 
stick with this strategy as well.

Just letting my opinion get tossed around.

-Tallyn