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What this shows you is that it has become financially unviable for pro audio companies to support Apple. [1] is practically the same announcement by Avid Pro T
by fxtentacle 6y ago
What this shows you is that it has become financially unviable for pro audio companies to support Apple.
[1] is practically the same announcement by Avid Pro Tools, which is the standard for Hollywood movie production.
I also have a personal stake in this, because I used to sell pro audio software, including things that integrate with Pro Tools and OS X. We saw the writing on the wall around OS X 10.11 when major studios asked us to support Linux and subsequently bought $40k Linux-based mixing desks.
The fact is that any professional customer that uses NI has jumped ship years ago, so for Native Instruments the Mac market is shrinking in revenue, while growing in costs.
In my case, Windows and Linux are now paying for feature development. We still snort out OSX binaries from an old 10.9 xcode, but those aren't notarized because no paying customer has asked for it yet.
This is what happens if you don't value the time of your third party developers, for example with useless updates and poor documentation. I'm sure Apple will spin this as "the app store provides", but there's only so much work you can put in for a platform with a median lifetime app revenue of <$1000.
In short, professional movie studios have voted with their money, and now the market follows suit by canceling Mac support.
[1] https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Compatibility/macOS-Big-Sur-Support https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Compatibili...
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