Apple Buys Emagic

sapporo writes "Apple has apparently bought Emagic, developers of Audio Logic, music production software used by 200,000 people worldwide. Emagic will operate as a wholly owned division of Apple, and the Windows versions of their software will be discontinued on September 30, 2002. Whoa!"

Comments

Apple on a buying streak

[tolldog]

Apple has purchased 2 companies with compositing software and now a company with audio software.

Where are they getting all this money???

And from what I understand, in all cases they are looking at discontinuing Windows support and posibly Linux as well.

I am all for Apple having strong authoring tools, but to buy out software that people rely on to do work and then drop support for their platform is pretty shadey. It is forcing us to move to a Mac or to find some other software, and in some cases, all the other software is a few generations behind.

I may not mind getting a Mac, but please don't force me into it.

-Tim

Re:Audio iMovie over Final Cut Pro

[Andy_R]

Emagic already have a free version of Logic, called Logic Fun, that roughly fits the bill.

It's only got 4 tracks, and no CD-burning built in, but it's free, and comes in Mac and PC flavours (for now)

You can download it from http://www.emagic.de/german/education/download.htm l (this page is in German, but the application is English language)