| | | Software instability and bad usability is I think more of a conceptual matter than a matter of how smart coders are. Heck finding an errant period or a misspelled blob of code isn't really an intellectual matter anyway, its drudgery.
I use LogicPro. It started out: Notator Logic, or Logic, by German software developer C-Lab, later Emagic. It became an Apple product, eventually known as Logic Pro, after Apple bought Emagic in 2002. It is the 2nd most popular DAW - after only Ableton Live - according to a survey conducted in 2015. [3]
The problem is the owners kept buying and tacking on stuff, many times one interface had no relation to another. So its a jumble of multiple applications. Apple made it worse using interface designers who care more about how their portfolio shots "look" than how the application work flow works. One thing I use a lot was buried 2 windows deeper, for no reason other than the designer wanted to "clean up" the look of one window. In addition you have to ALLOW this thing to be visible in the preferences by setting it to allow professional features... nobody except professionals buys the damn software, Macs come with Garage Band free. The person who made this decision apparently had a very vague understanding of what people use Logic for.
The upgrade from Logic 9 to 10 was pretty bad. It requires relearning to much and there are few concrete advantages. If they rebuilt it from the bottom up... of course that is expensive. Better to give it a cheap facelift. I ended up buying much more expensive software to add to Logic 9.
When OSX came out, you had a pretty clean slate... it really was great except for the dock, but over the years they kept tacking things on, many of them not useful or thoughtful, many of them for "looks" instead of hard core usabilty.
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Anyway... the real reason for crap software is poor management. People who are great at tactics aren't necessarily great at strategy... and people who become management don't always get there because they are the best person for their position. |
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