Comments on: Apogee Dumps Windows, Tells Users Macs are Better

By: Per Lichtman

Per Lichtman — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:40:03 +0000

Leslie, thanks for quoting me: I had no idea anyone was reading the post that carefully. :)

All the best,
Per Lichtman

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:17:38 +0000

Apogee dropping Windows dev’s by Economic Crysis.

By: OneOfMany

OneOfMany — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:37:02 +0000

Look on the bright side. The PC will always support those who bang sticks and stones.

By: Brad Upchurch

Brad Upchurch — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:19:11 +0000

The press release sounds like a red-herring to cover up a bad financial situation- by stooping to engage an ages old polarizing OS flamewar. Forget ‘em and any other vendor that can’t hold an honest dialog with their customers. Go buy a fireface or some other I/O that is engineered to be solid on any platform. Its better for everybody.

By: vince

vince — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:31:45 +0000

Cool. Only a certain type of consumer will cough up that kind of cash anyway. They may be going after the right market. Too bad the current US economy isn’t gonna aid them at all about now, who knows.. they may have committed suicide.. But, I wish them luck. Macs are fun, but PCs are user repairable, upgradeable, scalable and cheap.. awesome.

By: Glass

Glass — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:30:35 +0000

This is a very cool move.

Why? The world deserves better. Windows should die. :)

Not a troll at all, I just believe that the world would be a better place with just Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, QNX and every other operational system that is superior to Windows. Developing for Windows is crap, the interfaces are crap, the sofware is crappy, .NET is so bad not even Microsoft uses it, but still, we have to make Windows software because everyone uses it…

By: RichardL

RichardL — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:28:44 +0000

Daringfireball’s John Gruber has decided that Apogee stopping development of Windows products they never developed is an indicator of the tables turning for Windows.

Time to lay off the Kool-Aid John.

By: salamanderanagram

salamanderanagram — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:54:15 +0000

if you’re incapable of using windows (probably the easiest thing in the world if you have a lick of common sense) then you probably should not waste money on a computer at all.

By: marc

marc — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:26:36 +0000

Well, superior converters on a superior plateform (Mac). Besides, if you have the kind of money to purchase apogee products buying a PC is a bad solution, you will want to work on something better than windows OS.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:16:25 +0000

“- Apple may or may not have paid Apogee any additional money, but they have already been getting a lot of free advertising and haven’t had to make any real changes.

- The closest Apogee has come to an audio interface for PC was including PC support on their Mini-DAC unit (which was an output only converter with software support rather than a dedicated soundcard).

- Apogee has been making Apple only audio interfaces for years.

- Apogee is really making a very minimal change to their product line and making a big deal out of it in order to cross-market with Apple. It’s to their mutual benefit because Apogee has nothing invested in the Windows platform but already have a substantial investment in OS X.

- Apogee does not make any DAW software and EMagic (the original makers of Logic) weren’t really doing any hardware worth mentioning so there was no overlap between the two product lines.[/i]

So really, this is all much ado about nothing: Apogee is making official what has been there de-facto position for years and really the only people that would be affected are people that might want to run a Mini-DAC on a new Microsoft OS (as they will still run fine on Windows XP SP 2). Now if Apogee had announced they were starting to support PCs with their Ensemble and Duet interfaces, that might have marked a significant shift in corporate strategy and been newsworthy.”
by Per Lichtman – original post from KVR