An interesting statement from a 3rd-party developer:
→ https://www.meldaproduction.com/text-tutorials/switching-from-osx-to-windows
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So what is the problem with Apple anyway?
Imagine you are a builder (the software developer of a DAW/plugin…) and you started creating a big factory some time ago. You have built the foundations, walls, started putting some equipment for various companies (your customers, the users) in it. And obviously the factory needs a roof, right? You started building your factory with a very specific roof manufacturer (Apple) in mind, which uses some odd roof attachment system, not a perfect one, but it does the trick. But suddenly this manufacturer comes in and says “sorry, we have a new attachment system, for which you need to make your factory one meter shorter and change the attachment bolts”. Of course you, being the builder, know this is a total nonsense and all they need to do is a little gadget (converter) from the old roof attachment system to the new one. But they just won’t do that, and even worse, they won’t let you do that either. They just won’t install the roof until you remake the entire factory. So you as a builder are in trouble. Your customers asked for this roof, which isn’t special in a way, it just has a specific colour that other roof manufacturers don’t make (and there are many of them, cheaper and often better ones). But to make it all work, you have to spend a huge amount of time rebuilding your factory for no good reason and after that some equipment (ProTools 10) now won’t even fit in, because the factory will be too small. That’s a situation without a reasonable solution and it happened several times before, but it seems to be getting worse than ever.
So the real question is, do you want the developers of your DAW and plugins to spend their days trying to fix the problems arising from system upgrades, or to improve their own software products, making them more functional, more powerful, faster, stable and easier to use? If it’s the latter one, then the only solution seems to switch to Windows. The only one, who can make a difference is you, the customer.