beats me wrote:
That's pretty much my story but when you post about your experience retrospectively you're a big ignorant asshole.
Cry me a river. You were ignorant then, not a heinous crime. Now, you're an asshole for trying to paint out everybody else but you as at fault.
NI could have offered a cheaper upgrade path how? What exact method could they use to determine that you had an Intel Mac at the time of purchase?
Do you think it's their responsibility to take hundreds if not thousands of boxes off the shelves of stores after Apple announces out of the blue a whole new architecture? Especially when it seems logical that a person buying the new Intel Macs would take the time to see if the software is compatible??
How is it NI's fault that they released a product a year earlier than Apple releases Intel Macs, the most logical solution is to offer an upgrade with new sounds and features, not spend thousands of dollars making software that was never marketed or designed to run on Intel Macs compatible.
Apple if anybody are at fault here, they marketed the Intel transition as seamless, didn't even change the name or direction of OSX in any way as to make the customers believe it was easy peasy! when it fact it wasn't. Companies like NI that coded with Codewarrior were forced to rewrite from almost scratch, a huge financial hit, and then people like you take out your frustration that they bought software not designed to run on Intel machines on the people most affected by the transition, developers. Apple made a shit ton of cash, NI I'm certain didn't make money on being singled out for peoples frustrations. Plus recoding for the second fucking time in ten years the same dammed software for Apples computers and customers. The best part? Apple customers blame the developers, never is it even considered that they're working twice as hard on Mac versions as they do for PC versions. Think about it. OS9 to OSX, VST and AU plug ins, and PPC to Intel. Every step of the way somebody isn't going to like their decisions, but it will never be Apple's or their faults.
A lot of developers hate coding for Macs for this very reason, Apple users will blame them for every problem they have, and never think about the consequences of decisions like AU, OS9-OSX, PPC-Intel on the development cost, as if that kind of roadblock is normal and shouldn't be a problem.
NI and other companies did what they could, offering an upgrade path with compatibility is the most logical and least financially destructive thing they could do under the circumstances. The other scenario is to raise the cost of all their software, which is unfair to PC users. Shit? even Ableton more of less bribed you into getting an upgrade with a $50 dollar fee for compatibility in 5.2 and a promise of a discount on the upgrade to 6??
Kinda true. But they've done an amazing turn around, both as far as stability and customer service and communication. There was a while a few years ago where I was considering ditching my NI plugs and hated that I loved them so much. But now I'm pretty happy to have all their toys.