[LAD] Forgive me, for I have sinned, or: toss your Macintosh, as fast and wide as you can.

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 11:52:30 +0100, Louigi Verona wrote:
>Any system can fail, and it is never at the right time. And in my
>experience, proprietary systems are generally much more stable than
>floss, and are less likely to fail suddenly and without warning.

I made that good experiences with audio software on an iPad 2, that I
consider to drop more Linux audio software and buy better Apple
equipment to migrate to more proprietary audio software. I'm still
uncertain, since there's one big issue. If an Apple device is
discontinued, as e.g. the iPad 2 and you should experience a bug, as I
do for SampleTank, it seems to be strategy of the software developers
to expect that you upgrade the Apple hardware, instead of fixing the
bug for "old" Apple hardware. I try to use old computers as long as
possible, even if I should have the money to buy new hardware. With
Linux an old PC easily could be used for a decade and if somebody
doesn't want to do this, it's not expensive to get a new PC. Apple, as
well as the software developers seem to expect that users buy a new
Apple computer each year or at least after three years. IMO this is a
bad attitude, but even if I wouldn't care about the attitude, usually I
don't have the money to pay for Apple hardware. I won the iPad 2 when
I had no money and fortunately I've got the money to pay for Apple
hardware nowadays, but this might change in the future. Btw. I don't
use iCloud, but I could imagine that Apple in the future dose enforce
iCloude usage, e.g. to store and restore purchases.