Re:Ask HN: How to Block Apple's Spyware on BigSur?
by cue_the_strings on Saturday November 14, 2020 @07:03AM
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Stability on macOS? Laughable.
Macs are pretty popular among musicians and producers. When El Capitan dropped, pretty much all audio hardware and software stopped working. I remember that you couldn't use Native Instruments plugs and the majority of pro audio interfaces stopped working.
This was fixed after a while, but it took at least half a year for everything to work again for 50% of users and a full year for everything to work for 90% of users.
If you upgraded by accident and didn't have backups, you were in trouble. Even if you had backups, you could still have issues.
Now, did something similar ever happen on Linux or Windows?
I can safely say that a lot of people lost some revenue because of that upgrade (there were also issues for video production software), at least until the word spread that you shouldn't upgrade.
Macs are pretty popular among musicians and producers. When El Capitan dropped, pretty much all audio hardware and software stopped working. I remember that you couldn't use Native Instruments plugs and the majority of pro audio interfaces stopped working.
This was fixed after a while, but it took at least half a year for everything to work again for 50% of users and a full year for everything to work for 90% of users.
If you upgraded by accident and didn't have backups, you were in trouble. Even if you had backups, you could still have issues.
Here's a link from back in the day:
https://macprovideo.com/article/audio-software/5-reasons-mus...
Now, did something similar ever happen on Linux or Windows?
I can safely say that a lot of people lost some revenue because of that upgrade (there were also issues for video production software), at least until the word spread that you shouldn't upgrade.