Notice how Soren didn't actually deny the allegations, which were very specific:
(1) There are only two pro application specialists in Europe.
It is you that is not specific. As noted in the update to this thread this isn't about developers it is about sales support people. (emphasis mine below):
"... his original report said
nothing about Apple's development work on Logic and addressed only the specialist team that assists professional users with using the software tools. ... "
(2) Apple is not hiring someone to fill a recently vacanted pro applications job.
It is a sales support job. Labeling it "pro applications" is not specific.
(3) The remaining people are working mostly on an iPad application, not an OS X application.
It was a sales support job. There are probably zero folks working on sales support for the iPad apps. So there is no "advantage" the iPad apps have here.
The "denial," which is very vague:
(1) The team is still in place [the team of 2? the team in the U.S.?]
The folks who make the apps are still in place. That's highly accurate because even the original report was not even talking about the dev team.
Here's what people want to know:
(1) How many man-weeks per week are spent on OS X pro audio applications? The answer to this will be a number, an integer, not a marketing adjective.
LOL. No one is going to generally tell folks that for any substantive software project.
A simple question of whether they are working on a follow up to Logic 9 on OS X is a sufficient question without getting into the weeds of trying to scope out their low level, weekly tactical development plan.
(2) When will the next OS X pro audio application be released? The answer to this will be a date, consisting of a year and a month.
ROTFLMAO. First, you are eyeball deep in their weekly development plan and now looking for super high precision on release.... How about when it is ready? And nevermind Apple's corporate policy is not to talk about future release dates and products.
When the bug count is sufficiently low enough and there are no "show stopper" bugs then they will figure out a release date. Maybe they are at the end of the tunnel and maybe not. Throwing a hissy fit and demanding some date isn't going to create a viable one.
P.S. It is not really surprising Apple is letting good of the "high touch, Cadillac" sales support folks. For $2,000-8,000/seat software that makes sense. For $199 software it really doesn't. If folks like it and find it useful they'll buy it. If buying 4-5 seats and it was going to be a double digit thousand dollar purchase then the sales process gets long and protracted. The prices now are no where near where the purchasing decision is "high drama".
Between the feedback mechanism Apple already has ( apple.com/feedback , support forums , trainers/edu offerings by 3rd parties , long time customers , etc. ) it isn't like they aren't going to hear from customers.
The same thing happened on the FCP side. The "in house" professionals were let go. Pragmatically since these folks just serve as liasons they really aren't in the business. Over time they effectively become a "in house" focus group. Apple really doesn't do focus groups. Nor with 10's of thousand customers for the software, are really lacking for customer feedback or identifiable significant candidates to pro-actively talk to.