If the 'people' behind Mac had not constantly changed the operating system without regard to who was selling what, you'd have the exact same version at the exact same price.

But the bottom line is every few years, despite many companies trying to market Mac products, the brains behind Macs and anything Apple change everything. At one point, for many years there was no compiler to allow pg music to port their product to Mac. Just like the idiotic idea that an Ipad can't do any flash. I was at my son's yesterday trying to get theatre tickets for a film and because his Ipad could not view the website, all we got was a description. I ended up on the phone, whereas had I any other tool available I'd have been able to get the info on-line.

The beta testing (several weeks of it) and then the release of the 'windows' version, has just happened. Normally, after the sales that generates settle down and the shipments are done, and the Christmas vacation is over the product goes to the next step, which may or may not include a Mac update. Given that they added a server to the Ipad/Iphone/Ipad on the windows side in this version do you think that maybe this will happen on the 'mac' side?

As said previously, Macs barely have enough sales to justify any development, don't build any company of sales to Mac users, the product may change, they may not tell the developers, and they may not have the tools to port the application. Very nice.

PG music has a 30 day return no ask policy. You could send it back and wait.

In the meantime the Mac salesman told me that Garageband would do anything you want, and that all professional studios are using it. No other software is needed. And that indeed in the credo which scares developers away.

And to be honest if they asked ME what should be done next, as a former developer for Unix platforms I would tell them to build an app for Android phones and then QNX. You might think apple is 'unix' of a sort but it's not compliant enough to write code in Ubuntu and port it over. It's too locked down. Just like DRM and Apple. Don't even think of going there.

John Conley
Musica est vita