by Morgenstern72 » Sun Aug 16, 2015 8:59 am
This is not a hate posting and I do not intend to start a flame war. Please consider the facts I am posting.
I do not want MM on Macs. This is because of one simple reason: it would burn to many developing hours for a small group of people and really hurt the reputation of Media Monkey as the best music organizer.
Let me explain this in more detail: I work as an administrator and Senior Systems Engineer at a medical research institute. I work with all kind of hardware, applications and OS.
I dig into quite complicated matters of virtualiziation, backup of Petabytes of data, Fibre Channel, Infiniband and so on, but also support users on a daily base since we are only three IT guys doing everything (including High Performance Computing) for 150 scientists. All this explanation needs to be to understand that I do not shy away from technology and different OS (I use Windows, Linux and Android). But there is one group of users that constantly give us much more work than all others: Mac and IOS users.
The reason is, that while Microsoft manages to build operation systems that are still good after 12 years, with applications from XP still often compatible in Windows 10 and problems taken serious and resolved on a schedule. Apple handles it different: they change basics like CPU architecture and operating systems completely as also change the way things work like they think it's good. Which breaks connection to our windows server and mail server on a regular base and generates problems with syncing and many applications. While MS focus is on delivering a most compatible experience for as many users over a long time (with drawbacks like limited innovation spirit) Apple focus is on innovation culminating in doing things like they want and selling it to their user as better, even if it's much worse then before (see "evolution" of itunes and how they limit it every new generation or the reduction of connectors on their computers). This is not ranting and flaming, this is hands on experience with 100 users working with windows and 50 with Macs and iPhones. They constantly have problems after updates. And many start to use Windows on their Macs.
So please do not develop a MM version for Macs. This would cost so much developing power for every new OSX and iOS that it would either degrade the overall development or even break the company. Just look at the many sync problems you have with different iOS. No or much less problems with XP-Win 10 and different Android versions when I compare the bug tracker.
To put is simple: Macs are great if you stay inside Apples ecosystem and can accept that Apple makes decisions for you of how and what to use on their hardware. That's their spirit: it's their hardware, not yours, and they know how to use it best, not you. If you can accept that than you will have have an almost flawless experience of easiness and great design. Just don't dig deeper like Windows people like to do sometimes.
If you want flexibility, customization and long term compatibility then use Windows. Use it even on Apple hardware if you like their design. They just made Bootcamp compatible to Windows 10 since many customers do want the best of both worlds. But please do not ask companies to deliver the same apps in the same quality for Macs as for Windows. That may work for bigger companies like Adobe (even Adobe has much more Mac related bugs than Windows related ones), but not for small companies. You will kill either the product or the complete company or are left at some point with an unusable app (wither on older or new systems).
Thank you for taking this posting serious and not in a way of harassing or flaming. I dol not want to start a discussion and so will not spam this thread with reactions to your reactions. I just ask you to please make an informed decision of what you want and then take the consequence of either quite limited easiness and great design or a little more complicated way of freedom of choice and more rough edges.
This is not a hate posting and I do not intend to start a flame war. Please consider the facts I am posting.
I do not want MM on Macs. This is because of one simple reason: it would burn to many developing hours for a small group of people and really hurt the reputation of Media Monkey as the best music organizer.
Let me explain this in more detail: I work as an administrator and Senior Systems Engineer at a medical research institute. I work with all kind of hardware, applications and OS.
I dig into quite complicated matters of virtualiziation, backup of Petabytes of data, Fibre Channel, Infiniband and so on, but also support users on a daily base since we are only three IT guys doing everything (including High Performance Computing) for 150 scientists. All this explanation needs to be to understand that I do not shy away from technology and different OS (I use Windows, Linux and Android). But there is one group of users that constantly give us much more work than all others: Mac and IOS users.
The reason is, that while Microsoft manages to build operation systems that are still good after 12 years, with applications from XP still often compatible in Windows 10 and problems taken serious and resolved on a schedule. Apple handles it different: they change basics like CPU architecture and operating systems completely as also change the way things work like they think it's good. Which breaks connection to our windows server and mail server on a regular base and generates problems with syncing and many applications. While MS focus is on delivering a most compatible experience for as many users over a long time (with drawbacks like limited innovation spirit) Apple focus is on innovation culminating in doing things like they want and selling it to their user as better, even if it's much worse then before (see "evolution" of itunes and how they limit it every new generation or the reduction of connectors on their computers). This is not ranting and flaming, this is hands on experience with 100 users working with windows and 50 with Macs and iPhones. They constantly have problems after updates. And many start to use Windows on their Macs.
So please do not develop a MM version for Macs. This would cost so much developing power for every new OSX and iOS that it would either degrade the overall development or even break the company. Just look at the many sync problems you have with different iOS. No or much less problems with XP-Win 10 and different Android versions when I compare the bug tracker.
To put is simple: Macs are great if you stay inside Apples ecosystem and can accept that Apple makes decisions for you of how and what to use on their hardware. That's their spirit: it's their hardware, not yours, and they know how to use it best, not you. If you can accept that than you will have have an almost flawless experience of easiness and great design. Just don't dig deeper like Windows people like to do sometimes.
If you want flexibility, customization and long term compatibility then use Windows. Use it even on Apple hardware if you like their design. They just made Bootcamp compatible to Windows 10 since many customers do want the best of both worlds. But please do not ask companies to deliver the same apps in the same quality for Macs as for Windows. That may work for bigger companies like Adobe (even Adobe has much more Mac related bugs than Windows related ones), but not for small companies. You will kill either the product or the complete company or are left at some point with an unusable app (wither on older or new systems).
Thank you for taking this posting serious and not in a way of harassing or flaming. I dol not want to start a discussion and so will not spam this thread with reactions to your reactions. I just ask you to please make an informed decision of what you want and then take the consequence of either quite limited easiness and great design or a little more complicated way of freedom of choice and more rough edges.
