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Future = IOS7 Goodbye iPad First Gen

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Jerrylee:
The only resaon you would be stuck is if you refuse to upgrade. How much does it really cost to upgrade? iPad 2s are selling for $200 and less. And you can still sell your iPad 1 for some $. Even the current iPad air will be non upgradable someday. So do yourself a favor and upgrade. Or stop being a crying bitch and deal with the dl as it is. It's still a great little mixer even with the iPad 1.

And you think the dl has ENDLESS potential for free upgrades, improvements and bug fixes? What planet are you on?

Think about it. Do you own a product that was revolutionary, like the dl, that is no longer upgradable? Hmm? (Hint: IPAD 1 jackbag).

abzurd:
 I did a little reading and this is NOT the fault of Mackie. It's Apple being heavy handed. On December 19th Apple issued an ultimatum requiring all apps and app updates submitted to the App store after Feb 1st to be IOS7 compliant. OK that by itself doesn't mean they can't not work with IOS 5 or 6, but Apple continued by also requiring all apps be compiled using Xcode 5, which just happens to only spit out IOS7 apps.
I briefly read about some hacks and ways to get the compilers for IOS 5-6 in the Xcode 5 app, but the bottom line is Apple removed native support for it.
My guess is Mackie, and others, raced to get something submitted before the deadline. That would explain Masterfader 2.1 hitting the app store on February 18th, roughly 2 weeks after the deadline, which historically has been the lag time between submission and release off apps to the store.

Wynnd:
You probably have that right.  Thanks

WK154:
After my brief encounter Apple I & II with Jobs I determined that Apple was not the right computer co. to do business with and went with DEC. His paranoia after the clones materialized was not a third party developers company to hook up with. Apple today is not a computer co. by design and 2007 name change asserted that it's a consumer co. Thus the throwaway product attitude. Backward compatibility is not in their vocabulary. They're control freaks get over it! Apple for those not keeping up with the smartphone business should be aware that their bread and butter product the iPhone is loosing ground and is their main concern. Fortunately iOS is key but not the audio aspect. All of their hardware is loosing ground in the marketplace and they will have to "invent" something else to stay a viable major player. iPhone 6 won't do it. Samsung Watch-phone clone? For those curious here's some market history and forecasts.
https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24645514
Android is by far the predominant OS in the smartphone business (60-70%).
Microsoft will have to reinvent themselves as well with the new CEO at it's helm but Gates and Balmer are still in the loop. Interesting times to be sure.

abzurd:
You make it sound like they are hurting. Their ridiculous growth may be over, but they've gone from irrelevance in the 90's to the 15th largest public company in the world.... so there is that.

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