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This is a rant, a general observation from my 15 years of Mac ownership usage. Apple needs to slow down with the OSX update cycle, as developers aren't getting enough time to bullet-proof their products, and by the time some semblance of reliability seeps into a program a new OSX hits the shelves and the catchup game begins again. With each release of OSX it seems this gap is widening.
As a music professional i've pretty much used the same programs for the 15 years i've used Macs. For ten years it was bliss - plug and play, without question - but since around the time of OSX 10.7 it seems in-house and third party developers are increasingly struggling to release rock solid programs for market.
I've just bitten the bullet and clean installed Mavericks onto a freshly formatted hard drive. I've also updated all my core third party software to '10.9 approved' versions. Nothing, and I mean nothing is playing ball. Programs are error ridden, spinning beach ball of death, unexpected quits, error reports to send to Apple, grey screens that won't go away without a hard restart, and a laptop I can't shut down. In my two weeks since updating to Mavericks i've faced more stability issues that I have in 15 years on the OSX platform. And you can't do anything but sit and lump it whilst programmers slowly iron out the bugs. That's not the Mac way - it never has been... until recently.
I dunno. Mac has their new corporate agenda but it seems to be squarely pitched at consumerdom than the professional market. But if things keep heading on the same trajectory into the future, I hate to say it but a Windows-based machine might become the more stable/reliable alternative... talk about a 180 of reputations!
/rant.
As a music professional i've pretty much used the same programs for the 15 years i've used Macs. For ten years it was bliss - plug and play, without question - but since around the time of OSX 10.7 it seems in-house and third party developers are increasingly struggling to release rock solid programs for market.
I've just bitten the bullet and clean installed Mavericks onto a freshly formatted hard drive. I've also updated all my core third party software to '10.9 approved' versions. Nothing, and I mean nothing is playing ball. Programs are error ridden, spinning beach ball of death, unexpected quits, error reports to send to Apple, grey screens that won't go away without a hard restart, and a laptop I can't shut down. In my two weeks since updating to Mavericks i've faced more stability issues that I have in 15 years on the OSX platform. And you can't do anything but sit and lump it whilst programmers slowly iron out the bugs. That's not the Mac way - it never has been... until recently.
I dunno. Mac has their new corporate agenda but it seems to be squarely pitched at consumerdom than the professional market. But if things keep heading on the same trajectory into the future, I hate to say it but a Windows-based machine might become the more stable/reliable alternative... talk about a 180 of reputations!
/rant.