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>>  I upgraded from LAG to LAP 2 months before the deal
>>was made public. Now, you can't tell me that no one at
>>Emagic knew at the very least talks were going between
>>them and Apple.
>
>It's in fact quite possible that no one knew.  Rumor has it apple was 
>trying to buy digidesign and when that deal did not happen they 
>courted and bought e-magic.  The deal may have gone down very 
>quickly.  You and I have no way of knowing.

First of all, any negotiations would have been secret. What if the word had 
gotten out about the talks, and then people stopped buying LAW, then the 
talks broke down. Then Emagic would be screwed both ways. This is standard 
operating procedure - in all business dealings of this sort. In fact, there 
was undboutably non-disclosure agreements signed as a first step. Nothing at 
all is wrong with that.

The only thing I think was discourteous was.... once the deal was decided... 
that we find out in a terse web statement. Since millions of dollars and 
hundreds of thousands of users are involved, it would have been wise, 
courteous, and good business sense - to announce it in a nice way, with some 
plans for the LAW cross grade already thought out. Apple screwed up by 
stirring everyone up unnecessarily.

However, as I said before, Apple is doing a number of borderline crap things 
- trying to copy Micro$oft's greedy bully tactics.