My main music production Mac is always at least one full OS version behind. I know some engineers in the industry that lock down there Macs for years without updating.
Pro music perspective on Apple
My main music production Mac is always at least one full OS version behind. I know some engineers in the industry that lock down there Macs for years without updating.
The problem is that Apple can no longer be counted on to fix bugs in their current OS release. At all. Even major bugs (like the Finder reliably crashing in Yosemite when copying files) are only fixed in the next release. Which, of course, comes with its own assortment of bugs.
The ready-or-not annual release cycle is destroying MacOS.
“I know some engineers in the industry that lock down there Macs for years without updating.”
Their. The word is their, not there.
it’s the same with video. you buy a new laptop, it comes with the latest osx preinstalled. then you download the latest version of final cut from the app store. which is not compatible with the a half year old version on your dektop, although there were only minor tweaks between versions. loading a project in the new version updates it and makes it unusable on the dektop. so now, in order to work on both machines, you have to update your OS on your desktop just to be able to install the new final cut. which might or might not break some stuff (e.g. gpu compatibility, AU units, slower…). oh, and naturally, your only option to share stuff with other programs – the xml export – has been updated and made incompatible as well, so you have to update lots of other programs, or worse, have a broken workflow, hoping for an update (sometimes you can at least buy some program to translate between apps, to solve this problem – but it’s mostly a temporary fix, money down the drain).
it’s pretty sad, because nobody wants to leave their mac and use windows or linux, but since past snow leopard, maybe mountain lion, you get to jump through more and more hoops just to keep your production running on a mac – the day where this is just not feasible any more from a business perspective is approaching fast. having “pro” machines that offer less and less professional options doesn’t help either ( e.g. round form-factor, ages old gpu only from ATI, rumoured switch to usb-c only, rumoured touch-bar – hello, new shortcuts & incompatibilities, something like cmd-shift-touchbar is not going to happen, goodbye not looking at your keyboard). after they are forced to use windows again, people usualy feel pretty burned by apple and vent their frustration publicly – it’s probably the inverse effect of the free advertising they got from all the cool creative kids back in the day.
i’m really wondering if they’ll just attribute declining sales of laptops & desktops to a declining pc-industry, or if they are actively neglecting pro users to get rid of them because there’s not enough money to be made from them. they’ve always been apple, but lately you once again get less for raised prices.