EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I'm a Mac user, from way back. Have no desire to switch 
platforms or programs. But I can't BELIEVE Emagic would stop 
supporting Windows. The cross-platform aspects Logic IS one 
of the major selling points. I used to use Performer, but got 
better results with a collaborator and I both using Logic (he's on 
a PC). 

It's GOT to be company BS. Like, it's not big news if Apple buys 
Emagic, but it is big news if Apple buys Emagic and then shuts 
down Windows support. Look how much conversation it's 
generated in this forum alone. The press release on the Apple 
site is different than the version I've seen on other news sites. It 
has a big disclaimer essentially saying, "this is what we thought 
we were going to do at the moment of this press release, but 
everything might change." 

Apple has made a lot of stupid marketting decisions in the past, 
but I can't believe they're so stupid as to alienate 35% of their 
user base (not to mention all the users who rely on 
cross-platform compatibility). 

--- In exs-users@y..., Murray McDowall <murraymc@m...> wrote:
> At 02:43 AM 9/07/02 +0000, you wrote:
> >--- In exs-users@y..., "sidefxuk" <emoticon@b...> wrote:
> >> 
> >> http://www.emagic.de/english/news/index.html
> >> 
> >> Thank God I use a Mac!
> >
> >Yeah, well, if Apple goes under a year from now, maybe the 
emagic 
> >guys can port the thing to a straight unix platform that can run 
on 
> >either mac or Win-ish hardware. that way, if anything happens 
to 
> >Apple, we don't lose logic too.
> 
> This is my concern also -- one proprietory platform --  it is a 
retreat.
> All the big players have moved in the other direction -- away 
from
> proprietory and towards more open systems and 
cross-platform development.
> 
> >Hell, license a version of unix, customise it, merge logic into 
it, 
> >and turn logic into a full-blown self-standing operating system 
with 
> >all the unneccessary stuff stripped out. That way they don't 
have to 
> >complain about Mac or Windows quirks, they have a 
completely free 
> >hand.
> 
> I wish the music companies had banded together --perhaps 
with some
> multimedia interests -- and bought Be a couple of years back. 
Palm has what
> is left of it and they got it for peanuts. Perhaps
> Macromedia/Emagic/Steinberg etc were scared that 
Apple/Microsoft would have
> turned on them. Perhaps the notion of competitors working 
together is just
> not workable. What a system it could have been if the content 
creating
> companies owned the whole box and dice --  multimedia 
workstations on state
> of the art OS and cheap powerful hardware.
> 
> >I mean, you don't really need to be able to run your email 
program on 
> >the same machine as your sequencer, at the same time, do 
you?
> 
> Well - on a Unix based system something like that would be no 
problem anyway.
> 
> Regards,
> Murray