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I think it's been pretty clear for a while that Dorico was going to become the only game in town, at least for professionals - Musescore is surprisingly good for what it costs (nothing) and they have an excellent team, but for paid apps Sibelius has been on a downward trajectory ever since Avid fired the entire development team, and I understand that Finale also has lacked development recently.

Switching notation package is horrendous, and it takes a long time to get good at a new one, but I am pleased that Finale have at least negotiated a good cross-grade deal so that the pain is at least primarily one of time rather than financial also. The Dorico team at Steinberg are excellent, and anyone who switches to the application will find them accessible and responsive. I understand for the Finale users this is a tough pill, but at least you will find yourselves in good hands with Dorico.

It should be noted that all this data is US only, which is not clear in the article, but is clearer in the original source. 

For those of you saying that the "creatives" are overeacting: as a musician I can't explain how repulsed i was by that ad - musical instruments are more than just tools, they are in many cases true works of art - good stringed instruments for instance tend to be hundreds of years old, unique, irreplaceable. When you play them they become an extension of you, something that you don't just hear, but feel with your whole body. I understand the message of course, but it's (figuratively) tone-deaf. It's as if Elmer's glue decided to advertise how great their glue was by showing us a whole lot of horses willingly walking into an abattoir. 

Am I exaggerating? Well, let me share with you an anecdote.

In the 1980s and 90s in the UK there was only ONE musical instrument insurance company: Allianz. They were superb - reliable, good value, and with an excellent reputation. Then they ran a series of adverts in concert programmes, showing destroyed instruments, purporting to show why you should make sure you had proper insurance. Professional musicians, despite the fact that Allianz were the best insurer, left them in droves, because their adverts were so distasteful.  Arguably even today they have the best insurance policies for instruments in the UK, but even 30 years later, their market share hasn't recovered. Even the UK Musicians Union does not recommend them, but partners with a competitor, of which there are now many in the UK, where there used to be none. Whether you consider that rational or reasonable, it's how it is: musicians care about their instruments more than almost anything. A professional classical musician will easily spend close to a 6-figure sum for their instrument (and some will spend well more than that), but unlike a computer they will reckon it will last them their lifetime and well more. Beyond the actual monetary value, this is something you are holding and producing music with for 8 or more hours a day, every day. It's part of who you are. Destroying one in an ad for an ephemeral and comparatively ridiculously cheap iPad, whether CGI or not, is a major faux-pas.

ricmac said:

" paint a picture of Apple deeply in the throws of development."

THROWS of development??  My best guess is that you were trying to use the word "throes."  But even there, I'm not sure that's an appropriate use of the word.  Good lord, discover the Thesaurus!

If we’re going down this road, let’s also have a moan about “Despite Apple choosing to thus far not compete” which needs to be “Despite Apple choosing thus far not to compete”. But tbh I think we either accept the writing, offer to be editors ourselves, or just go read another site. And in any case surely it’s a dictionary they want rather than a thesaurus.

This is so poorly written that I can’t even make sense of what happened. Even the first sentence:

On Saturday, OpenSea became aware of rumors that smart contracts connected to the non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace.

isn’t a sentence. There’s no main verb.