Time to tell the truth about NI after 20 years in the business

Which one you pick is more of a preference than anything, Windows is factually much better in regards to supporting older stuff. There's no such thing as transferring licenses between OS's, when you buy something it doesn't matter if you use Mac or Windows, licenses apply to both... What can happen, is due to what I said above an older product might not work with a modern Mac.

IMO trying to personify a big company is a huge mistake, their primary goal is to make money and companies aren't our friends to take our best interest first; if they can make $ with minimal effort/resources they will, if something that makes users happy means spending resources but does not yield a monetary return on investment they prob won't... Always assume that.

Ignoring the user base for too long might slowly kill any company if it has competition tho... This has happened before to some of NI's biggest products.

What's the implication here? That buying other companies/tech is bad for us Users?

Metapop died, Sounds.com looks borderline dead to me and iZotope was not acquired by NI, it's more like they joined forces on the soundwide thingy. Never heard about them buying out Nave or Liine.

No, no, no... I never said such a thing, I would never blame a user! I'm advising how to handle certain things based on my experience.

What I said was during transitions it's your responsibility to ensure you can keep working or recall older projects, imagine recording a major artist in 2003, you work on what becomes a hit and you got paid handsomely, then in 2023 the artist needs the project tracks for an anniversary remix or something... can you image telling Beyonce "hey, I don't have thew song because at the time I used 32bit plugins" ? It's a silly example but IMHO having this in mind will make you have failsafe measures in place to protect yourself.

Nothing he complained about is the user's fault, it's the way tech works and evolves, as a "pro" you're paid to deal with the intricacies that involve being in an industry that requires software, heck even as a hobbyist... this is for your own sanity.

There's no duality, I rarely use Maschine because to me it's stuck in mud and didn't evolve much in the past 8 years, that + ignoring users requests for the same amount of time means I'm out, I'll never buy another Maschine product unless this changes. As I said before here, I vote with my wallet. The only reason I remain on the forum is because I like helping people. I've sold my Mikro MK3 and my KKS Mk2, I'd prob sell my M+ too if it wasn't a gift.