Re: Jack at the OS level? No way!
Re: Jack at the OS level? No way!
- Subject: Re: Jack at the OS level? No way!
- From: "Andy O'Meara" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:08:31 -0500
You may not see it yet, because older users still cling to their
older stuff, but the next generation of users will grow along the
path Apple has groomed for them. Or at least that's the plan of
Apple's management, as evidenced by their actions. You can see the
same development in other fields as well, Apple is positioning
itself as the main (the only?) developer of third-party software
for their machines.
Apple does invite us third-party losers to share the fun in one,
and one way only: we may write audio unit plug-ins compatible with
Garageband and Logic.
you are free to install whatever software you like whether that be
open source, freeware, apple or whatever else there is. you are
free to develop whatever software you like too.
Well, the problem is that if you sell software intended for use by
white-belt users (which is what we happen to do), it's not acceptable
to require the user to be tweaking around in control panels just to
get the software to work. In other words, not all uses of inter-app
audio are in power user apps, so it's unfortunately not an option to
rely on extension hacks for flagship software.
The other problem is that just because there's kext freedom doesn't
mean that it's an acceptable alternative to official OS support.
Look at Win32: apps have a lot of freedom, but the end result is a
jumbled mass of 3rd party software that rarely has a high level of
quality and interoperability.
Andy
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