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Apple's Newest Macs Seem To Have a Serious Audio Bug (thurrott.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Apple's new Mac products might have a serious audio glitch for professional users. The company's newest Mac products with its T2 security chip suffer from a software-related bug that leads to issues with audio performance. The issue seemingly affects devices with the T2 chip -- that includes the iMac Pro, Mac Mini 2018, MacBook Air 2018, and MacBook Pro 2018. Although Apple's T2 chip is designed to offer improved security, it's affecting users in the pro audio industry.
As CDM reports, there is a bug in macOS that leads to dropouts and glitches in audio whenever a Mac automatically updates its system clock through the system time daemon. Users have been reporting the issue across a bunch of different pro audio forums for months, and it seems like the issue has never been acknowledged by Cupertino. The issue here is pretty simple to understand, as explained by a DJ software developer on Reddit: whenever the system time daemon automatically updates the system time, it somehow sends a 'pause-audio-engine' message to the kernel, leading to dropouts and glitches in audio.
As CDM reports, there is a bug in macOS that leads to dropouts and glitches in audio whenever a Mac automatically updates its system clock through the system time daemon. Users have been reporting the issue across a bunch of different pro audio forums for months, and it seems like the issue has never been acknowledged by Cupertino. The issue here is pretty simple to understand, as explained by a DJ software developer on Reddit: whenever the system time daemon automatically updates the system time, it somehow sends a 'pause-audio-engine' message to the kernel, leading to dropouts and glitches in audio.
Remember Dell's "It just works." and "Dell vs the rest of the PC industry" ad campaigns?
Oh, wait. That was Apple.
It's the same reason you don't generally see car companies doing ad campaigns around their competitor's recall mishaps. They all know "there but for the grace go I." Apple had to learn that lesson the hard way. A decade later and they're still living down that hubris.
All systems have bugs. The difference with Apple is that generally, the bugs get fixed and the hardware gets supported. As much as you hate their prices and controlled environment, can you say the same of other hardware manufacturers?
Under Tim Cook the Mac “Pro” line doesn’t mean Professional anymore.
It now means “look at me I’m doing ‘work’” for those trust fund kids in Starbucks posting to Tumbr.
The way things are going, it seems like their hubris hasn't changed, and is in fact preventing them from learning from their mistakes.
I'm imagining the Simpsons Principal Skinner meme, but instead he says, "Am I out of touch? No, it's the customers who are wrong!"
Actually, let's do that right now.
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