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Re: [Logic_Cafe] The Good and the Bad
2005-01-23 by GAmoore@aol.com
In a message dated 1/22/05 5:48:52 PM, dennis@... writes:
Everybody goes out and buys the cheapest, or the smallest, or the
cheapest smallest computer they can afford and then through the magic
of selective memory the minute they plug the thing in the fact that
they were making a compromise when they purchased their system in the
first place s;ips is instantly replaced with the expectation that
their new super computer will enable them to leap tall buildings and
screw Hillary Duff.
I think most of us buy good macs - which become more and more out of date as time goes on. If you bought a $2500 mid level mac every two years and sold it used and bought a new one, I guess it would cost about a grand a year to keep up with the jobs (when you consider upgrading ram and maybe other stuff too).
Personally I think there should be a high end no compromises "this is
as good as we know how to make it" Apple system that a pro can purchase
even if it has a serious pro price tag, and then they can say this is
the recommended Pro system for logic, it will run on everything else we
make but in one way or another the other systems will be a compromise.
This will both give the top end users a system that they can expect to
work and will give Apple a retort when people with lesser systems bitch
at them.
Interesting. But I think a better strategy would be to get rid of the bugs for all.
I have a feeling that the problem is there is a "marketing dickhead"
contingent at apple that looks at their demographic and says "our
figures show us that 0.5% of the people who actually buy logic are
making their livings with it, therefore the big bucks are in focusing
on pleasing the amateurs.
What the Dickhead Contingent forgets is that
#1. While it may be true that the 99.5% majority out there do not make
their livings with logic they also are probably getting their opinions
about logic from the 0.5% minority who is so in fact even though the
only account for a miniscule fraction of the purchasers that small
minority at the top are still the ones to please if they want Logic to
stay in the Biz.
Evidently there is a group of beeta testers whom are able to demand specialized features. I don't think the ease of use for beginning to moderate level users is much addressed at all. Those people are not beta testers. And I think many of the under-utilize the program, or suffer in silence, and perhap give up and plug in Reason.