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Excellent post and points. The GUI, while being old and familiar, a bit like a favourite old shirt, could do with some modernizing.

Also, Mac users need features such as you've mentioned, but also full notation and lead sheet functionality. That is sorely needed for those who use BIAB either live or in a studio setting.

Yet we Mac users pay the same price for BIAB as Windows users. So surely, the least we can expect is the same full implementation of all features?

And I'd rather have the features catch up to the Windows version than see a drop in price for the Mac version. I'm happy to have paid for the Everything Pak on its own HD, but the more I play with it, the more I see missing from the Windows version that a friend and co-musician runs.

Imagine if Adobe put out the Mac version of Photoshop for the same price as the Windows version, but left out a whole bunch of features??? Same thing....



1. The company is not a government organization. They do what they do to make money. If there was money in it then they would hire all the required people. Mac systems have not reached 10 percent market share, and it might be a long time for there to be 'more', especially now that Mr. Jobs has departed.

2. The software was orphaned by generations of Operating Systems which lacked any compiler for the software.

3. Mac software is a one trick pony as pertains to the operating system of the day. The Mac folks may re-write some drivers or other thing and hamstring your program. And Mac users want the software to be look and feel like everything else.

So I guess unless you understand and can code in Lisp or whatever it was the PC version was written in, the ability to write in C or Cplus or plus plus whatever is moot.

I'd suspect that if there are efforts to move forward in development, that modules are being ported one at a time for 64 bit computing platforms.

In the great timeline of computing evolution there will come a day when the hardware will query the software and adapt for it. Until that day, Mac will continue to try to offer a closed everything is here that you need shop. If they wanted an open source thing it would have happened long ago. Truth is they want things to be an app for their computer, their phone, and their player.

Hollywood here you come.

Perhaps if Mac users paid double the development team would switch gears, I don't know.

Free Enterprise is still alive anyway.

Perhaps someday Dr. Gannon will pen a memoir and we can all see the evolution of the software and the impediments that exist to make a cross platform piece of software that runs on windows, linux, and mac. Until then it is what it is I guess.

BTW, I spent most of my adult life running a Unix shop, and much of the software I wrote is still running Canada's largest chain of fitness clubs. My wife was a key component and I sold her with the company to the Good Life guys, and she's still there, 26 years and counting.

I wish she'd come home for supper. The candles are lit, the pasta is handmade and waiting...

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John Conley
Musica est vita