Sonar is like German Engineering, built to last.(thats what they used to say)
Not like American Engineering, built to break @ 59,000 miles and your choices are
Parts
New car althogether
lease, just keep paying forever
I'm gonna keep driving my 2017 Sonar sl 600 until the wheels fall off. and I'm still keeping it.
To be competitive in todays market, you need to:
have what people want and need, check
you need to be innovative and keep people interested and wanting more, check
you need to listen to the people who are paying you, check
and you need to do all this at a competitive price,...........lifetime updates....bad move.(unless it was a criminal decision, then very bad move)
either way, I never could see how a product that does not get consumed, keep generating income, you need new customers, or repeat customers, and at some point with all the overhead cost continuing, something has got to give. I believe it's called diminishing returns, not like when mixing music and you keep doing stuff until it's overcooked, but like spending so much money on something that only get a tiny bit better, I believe this is where we are with Sonar, it is so good that they can't afford to make it better, at the current income rate. I would have been happy paying every year like we've been doing since it came out, but a lot of people kept complaining about the prices, when they didn't even have to upgrade, so here we are with a fine product, that will remain fine and will always deliver on what it's made to for, a platform to capture the music we make and take it to the next level, so, I see no need to panic, Sonar will forever do what it's made to do, only when we change what we want to do, is when we should look elsewhere.