I've used it since they launched it and have paid for premium for years. I probably use it multiple times a day and have never had a single issue. Yes, it's a commercial social network and the self-aggrandizing posts are terrible, but I don't really pay attention to them. I feel the same way about Instagram and other social media which I don't pay attention to.
I use it as a way to maintain and leverage my network and learn about people and companies. I don't know how I'd stay current with the many thousands of people I've met over the years otherwise. Manually curate a mailing list?
I get that it doesn't work for people who don't work in tech and/or don't see the value in maintaining work connections. I find it's often those people asking me how they can find a job when they've put zero effort into it over the years.
Luma drives me nuts at conferences, I often end up invited to events without an address because they expect you to subscribe to their calendar feed rather than letting me put an entry in my own calendar.
Very cool app. If you can crack multi-channel output formats (5.1, Atmos) I can see a lot of prosumers who would happily buy the product. Even the most basic tools for Dolby 5.1 are overpriced IMHO and Atmos encoder prices are either far beyond the reach of most DAW users or require use of Pro Tools.
One downside of selling into the pro audio market is piracy unfortunately. I learnt that the hard way and ended up having to use iLok.
Really? I mean I haven't seen an iLok used in anger since the bad days of Prosumer ProTools.
Ableton, Reaper, Reason, and all associated VST and VSTi's from the incumbents like Arturia through to Korg and Roland, are all hardware-dongle free. Most use some sort of 30 day license server check-in or similar cloud platform intermittent auth.
N.B. I don't use Waves or UA software. Ever. Licensing models are akin to common assault.
This was over a decade ago. We were selling into the Pro Tools market, alongside Waves, UA and other tools more likely to be sold into studios and didn't see a lot of objections to the iLok.
I still remember walking into one of the highest profile million dollar mixing stages in LA, opening their Pro Tools plug-in menu and almost every single piece of software was pirated. Unfortunately even people who could pay for software (and had a strongly developed sense of IP rights for their own work product) seemed to have no issues ripping us off.
I can't disagree, although pricing models in the industry were a bit insane comparing 1:1 today with the 'don't pirate' site that deep discount a lot of premium plug-ins.
That said, there was a non-negligible amount of studio owners who had licenses but chose to use cracked versions of software stripped of DRM or otherwise bypassing the security checks in favour of maintaining stability. Lot of BSODs and IRQ issues with competing dongles with bad serial implementation.
High density living in a downtown area is inversely correlated with having a family across a wide selection of different countries though. The highest density countries like Korea and Japan have some of the lowest fertility rates.
> The highest density countries like Korea and Japan have some of the lowest fertility rates.
I'm going to doubt that's because of density. That's entirely because of toxic aspects of the cultures (especially work and education culture) that make it near impossible to have and raise a child for the first few years of their life.
Generally speaking, birth rate declines happen because people have more things to do than have children. That's why all rich countries experience them and noone has been able to reverse them. (Japan actually has slightly reversed theirs. Korea hasn't because Korean men are awful misogynists no women want to associate with.)
There are high density countries with high birth rates though; they're either very religious (Israel) or very poor (Africa).
One might have more than just a gripe with Infosys given they recently admitted to defrauding the visa system over decades and paid a record $34m fine. How many Americans lost out on jobs as a result? We'll never know.
It’s worth saying though that this fine is for lying and abusing the B-1 visas (to circumvent H-1b limitations). That being said I still believe there are a lot of issues with these companies regarding their H-1bs in the first place.
I use it as a way to maintain and leverage my network and learn about people and companies. I don't know how I'd stay current with the many thousands of people I've met over the years otherwise. Manually curate a mailing list?
I get that it doesn't work for people who don't work in tech and/or don't see the value in maintaining work connections. I find it's often those people asking me how they can find a job when they've put zero effort into it over the years.
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