Gentlemen,
Thank you for your replies!
Gary:
To start - for someone that is happy in PC land, I suppose it is a stupid argument. For those of us that don't want to have to maintain a single windows box and deal with all the virus protection, potential driver conflicts, and the general hassle of switching modes in the old brain (which is getting older!), it is a bigger deal.
"what makes you think osx is more secure than windows, other than the fact that there are fewer computers running it? do you really think that macs are immune to virii? well, the original os was for all practical purposes..."
Mostly the continued absence of viruses in the wild even as the growth in Mac sales spikes in both business and government year after year.
But the root of Windows Virus problem is horridly poor bandaided legacy code that still lives in there, not only its market saturation. I abandoned windows for OSX years ago, so perhaps they have made some progress, but after spending the first part of my career using SGIs and Irix, I can confidently report that for many years Windows was a jumbled disaster with NT being the first usable professional platform. And then there is the behavior of pulling the rug out from under everyone with each new generation of Windows. Is Scope just going to work with the WIndows8?
"the fact remains though, it's a HUGE job, and one that hasn't been possible yet for such a small company. personally, i prefer what Scope can do over any loyalty to a platform. still, I WANT TO SEE AN OSX VERSION."
On the relative merit of Scope, and having to eat a PC to have it: Amen - there is nothing else to touch it, and I am very excited about upgrading to Xite. It is just a frustration, leaving aside the cost, that I will have to buy a dedicated windows box that is the only one in my world. From a budget perspective, it may drive a choice to get the 1D over the 1. From my point of view, it adds a couple thousand of dollars of cost to the purchase and "breaks" my otherwise unified computing environment. So while I do appreciate that you couldn't care less, I think your assessment that the only reason one might want to run OSX is because of Logic is a bit myopic. Finally, the argument isn't whether the PC or Mac is better, it's whether S|C should deliver the product on both platforms, like almost every other audio package does (with the exceptions you note).
On the other hand - both of your points (Gary and siriusbliss) regarding the limited dev dollars of S|C are very much on target. If I had to eat a PC so they have enough resources to implement OSC support before OSX support - that would be a no brainer for me. It has always struck me as odd that these folks can't raise/earn enough money to properly keep up with development. Leaving aside the almost complete absence of marketing in the US (with Gary's very notable efforts as the exception), it almost makes one feel like they don't really want to sell these things. Do they not have actual business people involved in the company over there - are they all engineers?
Just watching how long it took them to bring this thing to market; the now useless Z-Link port (at least I have an old A16 to use with it); absence of MADI; seeming obliviousness to OSC... My distant view is that they need to get some fresh eyes involved in product development, and seek out sufficient development capital. It is a little nerve racking to buy into a platform when the company seems more like someone's hobby than an ongoing concern. Sorry if that seems harsh - it's just my actual impression.
Thanks again for the considered reply, and I hope you don't take my argumentation the wrong way - I love the tool - I evangelize about it to all my friends and even people at bars that look at me like I have two heads - and I hope we have a long happy future together with S|C and Xite!
Now onto more important things, Gary: Are they both in stock?
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