Actually, the screw ups are on those software developers who write their code based upon SDK behavior, not documentation. Yes, Apple sometimes makes mistakes, but more often the "mistake" is that Apple fixed a bug (isn't that what an "unintended side-effect" is?) that a software developer depended upon to "save time" or "do something clever."
There's a lot of software out there that still work fine on the Mac, even though they were written almost 10 years ago -- and there's also software where the code was written over 10 years ago, and "just compile and work" on the latest Mac SDKs. I get that you don't want to switch captains in the middle of a voyage (e.g. change the system that you're familiar with in the middle of a recording session), but at the same time, burying your figurative head in the sand and blaming your platform vendor for your own problems isn't a good way to make progress. -- Glenn L. Austin, Computer Wizard and Race Car Driver <>< <http://www.austinsoft.com> > On May 15, 2019, at 4:32 AM, Vojtěch Meluzín <meldaproduct...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > The audio community is afraid of constant f*** ups with Apple upgrades. And > there have been many. Basically after every new operating system things get > wrong. If you are a home producer, you can deal with that. But if you are a > big studio on a tight schedule, you cannot risk, so these guys often stay > with like OSX 10.8 and the old crappy ProTools, just because it works. They > don't care about dark mode and facebook notifications, let alone the > constant pseudosecurity crap Apple comes up with. They just need the > workstation to work. And they expect the plugins to stay compatible, so... > there you go. I'd personally also stay with the old OSX, while it works, > but then comes some problem with the new OSX, so I eventually need to > update. So right now, the true professional audio plugins need to support > all variety of HW, OS and DAWs... Not easy life really :)). _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
