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  • Apple CEO Tim Cook congratulates Trump on his second election win

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    Did he post something similar when Biden won in 2020? I’m disappointed by the obsequiousness of many billionaries and CEOs (sometimes one and the same) towards our new fascist overlord. Bezos is one example, besides Musk and Thiel. Our country is hosed. I’m not sure I want to watch it go down in slow motion.
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  • Musicians to lose Finale notation app after 35 years

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    When Microsoft discontinued Money in 2009 they released a Sunset edition that did not require registration. I'm still running it years later although, thankfully, I no longer have to keep a Windows machine around since Parallels does a great job running Windows 11 on my Mac. I'm surprised that the developer of Finale hasn't considered a sunset version. He wouldn't even have to host the download, there are a number of third-party download sites such as cnet.com.

    I’m sure they considered having an unlocked version, but just decided against it. They really should unlock it or open-source it. Given their installed base, even if it had been dwindling, this is the equivalent of MS Word suddenly going away, in terms of the significance in the music community.  
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  • Musicians to lose Finale notation app after 35 years

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    As a long-time Finale user since the early 90's with version 3.2, this is not at all surprising but very very disappointing and sad. It's been clear for at least a year that development had stagnated, no bugs were being fixed, tech support was being noncommittal, and much of the interface remains mired in the 90's.

    That said, it remains indispensable to a composer like me, and I'm currently using it for a new work. I have a lot of plugins, some paid, some free, that have filled in the gaps that Finale should have had but never developed. Most things continue to work, and the ones that do not are not showstoppers.

    I've looked at Dorico. It's not trivial to learn, especially when one has to unlearn how things are done in Finale. Also, having decades of Finale files, they can't easily be converted to MusicXML and imported into any other notation program flawlessly; it's good, but not foolproof. The free MuseScore is very much underpowered for many of us who use Finale or Dorico. So I'm in a conundrum; I have a recent MBA that should be able to keep running Finale (assuming no forthcoming macOS incompatibilities) for many years, and that is likely how I will continue to function. But it's pretty shabby for the company that owns Finale (MakeMusic) to leave us long-time and recent users alike in the lurch, with a sudden announcement and only a year before the app is no longer able to be authorized if a user has to transfer to a new computer. Surprised it is not being sold to another company to develop, or at least open-sourced. If the company merely unlocked it as of August, 2025, then if still compatible with macOS releases in the future, one could reasonably use Finale for many years, buggy or not, on a new Mac or Windows machine. That is somewhat irresponsible, at least in my mind.
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  • Apple Vision Pro could help surgeons see vital data during operations

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    Actual gynecologic surgeon here; I have no doubt something like this might be useful to virtually train to do surgical procedures. But the headline makes it sound like this would provide “lifesaving” technology and I think that’s a bit of magical and hubristic thinking. We all already know how to do specific operations and even a robotic system doesn’t make the operation “better” or decrease metrics like blood loss or length of stay.  
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  • Apple Fellow Phil Schiller quits Twitter

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    “Maybe the future of social media is one social media engine used exclusively by conservatives, and a different one used exclusively by socialists.”

    Why do you think all of us progressives are socialists? 

    I quit Twitter yesterday evening after Musk reinstated TFG after lying that stuff like that would not happen until a committee that remains undefined would meet. Having once said I would leave if Trump were reinstated I was not going to go back on my word. I have no need to participate in a right wing fantasy of another billionaire. 

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