Sebastian
Guess what? Updated to #MacOS #Tahoe this morning and now my RME Fireface 800 can go to the trash, because #Apple silently dropped #Firewire support 😒 . That really is planned obsolescence at its best, and I would have expected at least a warning before the upgrade, or a long term support option for latest XCode/iOS SDKs on legacy OS versions.
Mar 27 at 9:43amWeb
Show threadOle-André Rodlie1d ago

@daseinslaborant EOL of Firewire was documented a long time ago. Don't just blindly upgrade the next time 😉

This is not planned obsolescence, it's just the end of something nobody uses or care about anymore. This is not just on macOS (also gone on Windows, Linux is next). Firewire is legacy, you can't expect it to work on "the latest and greatest".

And yes, I still use Firewire for audio.

Show threadSebastian1d ago
@rodlie That is clearly not the perspective I'm having as an RME customer, wo support their products over decades (I just got power supply and caps of the device renewed). But it looks like I have to adapt the perspective as an Apple customer that 'latest and greatest' (glassy icons and AI) will never last longer than 24 months. I take it as an expensive mistake and have ordered a new RME interface. It may last longer than keeping a second mac just for recording.