Hmm. I've sort of had this image of OSX being akin to Beta format and Windows being VHS. The best is rarely the most popular.James Steele wrote:Also... found it interesting that some people have expressed concern that Logic has more money behind it than DP, hence MOTU can't compete. How much money does Microsoft have and they still can't get Vista released? The comparison Jobs made of how the Mac OS has progressed in the last 5 years and what Apple has accomplished compared to Microsoft's languishing OS is astounding.
But Jobs' has done a good 'job' at pulling the weeds, so to speak, by severing ties with companies that don't deliver. It's amazing that Apple has survived at all through YEARS and YEARS where corporate takeovers have been the status quo.
Keeping it positive, the same amazement takes me when I think of MOTU hanging in there against the odds-- when Apple itself, as the corporate big dog in this instance, acquires Logic, Avid and Digidesign have connected, Steinberg/Yamaha, etc.
But in terms of the consumer, whether amateur or pro, there are three things that sell software:
1. CPU efficiency
2. User-friendly GUI
3. Bang-for-buck
I dare not say who's who, but the big 3-4 DAWs all get only two of the three (at the most) categories in different combos right at this time, but we're still a ways from any one DAW getting all three categories right.