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A certain amount of cynicism towards MS and Apple even. Wouldn't it be great if that wasn't so easy?
Unfortunately it is all too easy, even from "insiders" (though honestly almost anybody can join the developer programs for either at low/no cost from what I recall and get almost all of the same information). I personally don't mean to sound cynical, I view my DAW choices and the exclusion of GarageBand in the list of favorites there just a personal choice because of what I need and my workflow etc.
I can see how some of the actions and such of both of these large companies can frustrate end users, even when I know from my position and industry in which I work that a lot of the business decisions that aren't exactly catering to our type of user base would make sense to those that run both. From my perspective, I can only imagine how difficult it is to please any niche group based on experience with IK but on a level of MS or Apple I don't know if I can truly imagine. That's not making excuses for them, since I personally use many audio tools on both MS and Apple products and would like to see a lot of things that cater more to us but have to be a bit skeptical based on the fact that they are huge companies that have a lot of other (larger) user groups to cater to as a priority.
All that has some "that sucks!" factor, but I'm hoping to be wrong about some of these things and hope more attention and great value comes to audio users on all platforms and soon. To digress again, I'm reminded of Android audio where we ended up making the decision to create an entire audio interface capable of running our DSP code (iRig UA + AmpliTube UA) due to problems a huge company was having in their ability to cater more to the audio production audience.
Oh and these are of course my own personal opinions, even if some context and perspective come from my affiliation with IK. :)