EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Yeah, Apple have a history of doing really stupid things to products 
without taking a proper rational business view. They get too greedy 
for control over their nicer products, which then get damaged to the 
extent that they end up not being any better than the competition's.

IMO, logic is (was) currently the #1 sequencing app because 
a) it's great, and
b) it's cross-platform, so it was able to claim to be the single 
emerging industry standard. There's lots of little companies that 
just produce one Cubase-type product for one platform, but they can't 
compete with emagic when it comes to that wide support.
Microsoft understand this. MSWord isn't that great a program, but MS 
do all the niche versions that can (Cantonese, etc), because they 
understand that if they don't supply therse markets, some little 
obscure chinese wordprocessor app will suddenly get converted to all 
these languages and take over the market. maintaining ground cover 
ensures that little seedlings don't spring up and end up overshaowing 
you.

Now, if logic becomes some single-platform pet project for a single 
PC manufacturer, it immediately loses that status as the single 
preferred sequencing platform, because it won't run on Windows, and 
it's no longer got the status of being a default market leader. 
 
Apple have only owned this company for a week, and they've already 
thrown away a third of its revenue stream, alienated a third of its 
customers (and suppliers, etc), and downgraded the company's products 
to the status of niche single-platform software.




--- In exs-users@y..., <HELP@M...> wrote:
>Jeez, that is terrible. Although I'm a Mac user, MANY of my friends 
use Logic on PC. Apple really pisses me off at times like this. They 
shoot themselves in the foot all the time! Take the iPod for 
instance. Imagine how many more they would have sold had they made it 
Mac and PC compatible.<