It surely would. And free up alot of budget to invest instead in local

Apple screwed their pro market anyway. Sometime back . The history with apple and creatives relates more to print history I’d guess . Adobe needs to be ditched , and is in some areas. Windows is a shitshow as we know. There are lessening reasons to be wedded to either Mac OS or Windows as they continue to enshittify and I for one welcome it.

Whether or not they are “my” files would be the legal test in the given jurisdiction. It probably gets even blurrier if the file was created in ‘my’ licensed version of MS software application x. And blurrier still if created in the cloud version of said software and stored direct to their cloud storage platform . I’m assuming with most saas or cloud things that its never my file and im just renting access to something they own even if i created it. You distinguished “local” in your comment though, so this is where the win11 tactics have been a new level of scummy and scammy with the forced syncing etc . The whole OS is theirs. or is it mine ? Do i need a legal team everytime I install software? This whole idea of consent as well…. yikes . I’m glad we have options.

Out of interest what type of engineering and what type of hardware? I’m a (lifelong) music Hobbyist with a passing interest who also works in tech stuff kind of. I’m presuming live sound is your world since you mentioned ios rather than mac os ? Linux seems the perfect candidate for that world though I guess the various companies also do their own proprietary systems in the digi mixer worlds and such ?

Yeh and their own ‘R and D’ may have been leverage in the negotiation.

I switched in 2021. I havent noticed any fuckupery. Whats been happening ?

And the one who suddenly is concerned about ethics in regards to strikes . These Machiavellian creeps go from bad to worse with each day.

He also did a great tribute video to Tim Smith / Cardiacs. Was already in my good books, went beyond with that one.

Pathetic little puppet state . Human life comes second to a few bucks for this embarrassment of a government.

There’s alot of actual news, and this story is non news beyond what occurred on the day. I switched off from NZ media completely due to the constant asinine repetition of what presumably they think I need to be hyperventilating about as well.