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Why does Apple get the Professional OS nod when EVERY update is a break in your workflow Majorly. Heck every Mac is always on a different update because they are scared to even update in Mac only cooperate networks like mine. It has always been a pain in my video editing life too.
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> Just because something move forward doesn't means it moves in the right direction. Sure. In this case though I meant "in the right direction" too. I, for one, welcome third party kernel extensions moving to userland. > Do they ? How many brain-time did Apple waste yesterday by soft-bricking ALL THE DAMN MACS running Canalina ? A little. Nothing like the brain-months I've wasted on Windows and Linux troubleshooting,…
Maybe I am doing something wrong here, but I use Windows for 10 years, then switch Ubuntu for 5, and Mac for less than a year right now (so I am on Catalina). I feel that I spend 2-3x times troubleshoot my mac than Ubuntu. I still haven't been able to find a cause for intermittent entire UI froze I experience 2-3 times a day.
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I can't speak for other degrees, but mine didn't magically infuse me with ethics. It was the full credited modules solely dedicated to just ethics that aided in that department.
Ethics was an elective module in my CS degree. I took it because it seemed easier than some of the more advanced programming courses. 20 years later, I’m glad for the choice I made as a lazy youth.
Does Apple have a "Release to Manufacturing" phase in their release schedule before the product is GA? A time for all their software and hardware partners to fully vet their product against the gold master.
There have been a series of beta releases since June. (For some reason, they say in the linked page that beta releases have only been available since August, but that's not correct).
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There have been a series of beta releases since June. (For some reason, they say in the linked page that beta releases have only been available since August, but that's not correct).
I don't maintain software, but I've heard from multiple others that since betas are just dumped and things are quietly added, changed, and removed, it's difficult to trust a beta for development.
Maybe this is cruel, but in some ways I’m surprised modern hardware can be damaged over a modern bus? I wonder how it damages them.
As I understand it the Kontrol S4 has moving parts (essentially motors) under USB control. Obviously you could design this sensibly so that no legal inputs result in malfunction let alone damage, but that might cost more, so, do it all in software right? And then you're at the mercy of the software and anything (such as the OS kernel) which that software depends on. We do teach Computer Science / Software Engineering…
All this is enabled by the music gear community which blindly accepts a 2k synth (e.g. Moog Matriarch or Novation Summit) to be riddled with bugs one year after release or companies like NI or Elektron to always be 6 months late with compatibility for new Mac OS releases (first Catalina, now Big Sur), shifting blame on Apple.
It's Apple's platform - they signal changes well in advance. As a developer you either support it and play by the rules or move off it.
NI hasn't even managed to update their UI to the high DPI / Retina world in many cases.
Audio Software (and firmware) developers are really not the benchmark for this. They always lag behind, exploit hidden / unsupported features and never manage to play by the rules of the platform they are on. All this is enabled by the music gear community which blindly accepts a 2k synth (e.g. Moog Matriarch or Novation Summit) to be riddled with bugs one year after release or companies like NI or Elektron to always…
Why do software developers have to spend money because Apple keeps changing the stuff constantly?
UX retina are non-trivial changes. In the case of Qt, I recall that this meant changing the version this dropping other OS versions that were previously supported unless you duplicate all development effort.
Apple has NO incentive to not keep changing everything and breaking stuff thus forcing people to constantly upgrade and buy new hardware. For me, there weren’t any material changes in the OS I was happy and started using.