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You're right. I wasn't talking about the classic OS flavors in this context. Almost every other regulated platform works more or less the same way though. Either you give up privacy (and pay the price) or you pay directly. Amazon, Ebay, Uber, Playstation, Xbox, Spotify (as an artist), etc. It's ...

Read what you're saying. FWIW most devs think it is a good idea to publish on the App store, so there must be enough value in it for them.

Every platform takes a cut. And people generally want more.


That's not true at all. You can distribute apps on WIndows, Mac OS, Linux etc. for free ...

And how large do you think the Mac market share was back then? Total Windows market share means almost nothing in this case.

Mac vs. windows Market share has barely changed in the 20 years or so that I've been working in tech and making music. And Market share means a lot actually. Regardless of ...

There's already a ^%$& storm going on about the app store. Apple doesn't care. Look at what's going on with fortnite.

Look at what happened to Native Instruments. It's actually breaking some of their keyboards /controllers.

We can debate all day, but the reality is that if it were easy and ...

There's a big difference between keeping up to date on the latest dev kit and rewriting your entire application for a new architecture / operating system.

None of us can say for sure what percentage of Ableton users are on / moving to Mac OS, but I can say for certain that 80%-90% of potential new ...

Alternate take: Mac OS accounts for ~10% of computers currently in use while windows accounts for @ 87%. Apple has decided to change architecture for reasons that may benefit Apple, but so far appears to be of zero short to mid term benefit to software developers and possibly to their detriment in ...

I'm curious as to how this is being handled too. I was planning on doing the live 11 upgrade and purchasing a new Mac. Now I'm not sure if I should do either. Maybe I'm better off spending the $200 on Logic, or just building a new windows PC instead. Kinda all up in the air now.

I'm curious how well the new Apple processors will work with Ableton Live. I've been waiting for the new Macs to launch so I could upgrade and now I'm in a weird predicament. I don't want to buy one and then not be able to make music on it. But at the same time, I don't want to buy last year's model ...