Posted by [ dawgisht ] And as far as Quark, I still need to investigate, but they are infamous for being SLOTHS on development... and when you're the industry gorrilla (Adobe InDesign still has a way to go), it's not so easy to just dump 'em... fvck them AND Apple for making it a pain in the ass to buy a new Mac. Ah well... to each their own... OSX looks like it's finally in shape, but I can't afford to jump without a safety net. Take it easy,
on 3/28/2003, 7:50 pm, in reply to "Re: Mac users please read..."
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Thanks for the advice. Yeah I can totally understand why Apple did what they did... and yes, OS9 is a dead issue... BUT, the real problem is downtime between getting set up and fluent in OSX without any way to get paying work done in the reliable OS9 set up in the meantime (which equals downtime in income... not good).
Geoff
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: This is good news... but another
: question... would I be able to use
: all my VST plug-ins under OSX?
: depends on the plug in. all the major
: ones are either already osx native
: or will be within a month or two,
: and any plug in that wants any
: kind of future life will also
: eventually be osx native. people
: need to kiss os9 goodbye, it's
: kind of an akward transition for
: developers but osx is actually
: alot easier to develop for, it's
: just completely different from
: os9, and it's midi features are
: ####ing amazing, and designed to
: make audio better for us producers
: across the board, no matter what
: host program or plug in or
: whatever that you use, it is a
: leap forward.
: : Maybe the situtation has changed,
: but the word I heard made me a bit
: nervous... also QuarkXPress and
: it's plug-ins... gotta figure it
: out.
: i don't know about the situation with
: quark so i can't comment on that
: but the thing is, new mac's ONLY
: boot in osx, people have to shape
: up or ship out now, developers
: want to sell software, so they're
: going to have to make their
: software for osx, there is no
: point in building everything up
: around os9, which has no future,
: might as well get an osx only mac,
: hell, i'm making mine osx only as
: soon as i get a few key pieces of
: software (like next week when i
: order digital performer 4)
: : I really can't wait to fvck with
: OSX... it's just too bad that the
: CHOICE to use whichever system
: wasn't still allowed...
: they had to give users and developers
: a kick in the pants to switch
: over. i think it was a smart move
: actually. people were lagging with
: their osx development big time,
: and in turn users were not
: switching over to osx as all their
: important applications ran in only
: os9.
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