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It’s over Between Us, AVAudioEngine

by ArmandGrillet on 1/26/21, 9:38 PM with 13 comments

  • by chmaynard on 1/26/21, 11:32 PM

    > I guess I need to go back to doing things the hard way.

    The moral of this story is clear but third-party developers for Apple devices don't want to face it. With a few exceptions, most Apple frameworks and application software are proprietary. If Apple's internal source code is deemed to be central to their business, outside developers will probably never get to see it. And if they can't see it, they can't fix and improve it.

    If you write application software for Apple devices, you have made a Faustian bargain. You are at the mercy of the whims of Apple Software Engineering; Apple has you by the proverbial balls. If your own code is also proprietary then your customers are in the same vulnerable position, so stop complaining.

  • by washadjeffmad on 1/27/21, 12:49 AM

    This reads like a Pulseaudio article from 2008.

    When I wished for MacOS to become more Linux-like, I regret not specifying how or when.

  • by Jyaif on 1/26/21, 11:43 PM

    It's not just with Airpods: my Bose bluetooth headset causes this exact issue as well.

  • by andrewmcwatters on 1/27/21, 3:15 PM

    Whenever I read articles like this, it reminds me that cross-platform development can serve as a hedge, and not as a feature, it you want to look at it that way.

    I publish an app that works on Windows, Mac, and Linux, but if I ever ran into a situation like this repeatedly, I’d just kill the feature on that platform and save my engineering hours for something more important.

    I’m interested in what Apple is going to do for me, I’m not interested in enriching their platform.

  • by alfonsodev on 1/27/21, 12:08 AM

    If this happens to you as a user of any app, the temporal workaround you can do is, go to system preferences, Audio and change the mic input to be the system one, and the sound comes back to full quality.

  • by DoofusOfDeath on 1/27/21, 2:44 AM

    I didn't notice anything in the article about the author trying to get help from Apple.

    Is that just known to be so pointless that it's not worth mention?