There's a big difference in earned trust. Waves has had scummy business practices for a long time - price gouging back in the day, and more recently, an "upgrade plan" that amounts to a barely optional subscription already. That is, unless you don't want bug fixes, M1 compatibility, etc.
They also have perpetual sales cycles that only serve to trick new customers into thinking the sale price is actually a deal and not just the normal price (this is not exclusive to Waves but they do it more broadly and more often than anyone else except for Plugin Alliance).
In other words, Waves is the used car salesman of the audio plugin world. Certainly not alone in that, but way less trustworthy than a big player like Apple. Who knows what they'd try to pull this time. THAT is the sentiment behind the recent uproar.
You're not wrong about Waves. But, I'd argue that one of Logic's most appealing features is it's low one-time price. You could have bought Logic 10.0 ten years ago, and upgraded it all the way to 10.7.5 (current release), and paid $0.
Otherwise, it's feature set is really nothing special relative to other DAW's. And, if you're into making electronic music, it's pretty lackluster compared to Ableton or Bitwig (imo, of course). Plus, the whole no VST's bit. Which is less of an issue these days, but still.
This seems like a silly comparison. Obviously the people buying Wavves plugins trust them enough to buy the software. Wavves has always been a little scummy, sure, but it's not like Apple is a guardian angel themselves. They saw an opportunity to make money, and Tim Cook made the predictable move of pushing the "service" button on a new software product.
All of these companies are making the wrong decision, and refusing to stand by their products because their runtime is too fragile to stay put. Apple is complicit in this problem, and uses it as an excuse to sell you more services than products. They could work to solve the issue of subscription software being required for perpetual update models - but they don't. They are put in a position where perverse incentives (like the App Store monopoly) is their de-facto solution. This is bad for users. It's why I left the ecosystem and how Apple burned their "trust" with me.
> trick new customers into thinking the sale price is actually a deal
Wow, it's almost like you're describing Apple's "sale" model verbatim. Constantly offer 5-10% discounts at big-box stores to make people think they're getting good deals, and unload used models with upsell marketing like "factory refurbished" or some such language.
Which one of them are you comparing to the car salesman again?
They also have perpetual sales cycles that only serve to trick new customers into thinking the sale price is actually a deal and not just the normal price (this is not exclusive to Waves but they do it more broadly and more often than anyone else except for Plugin Alliance).
In other words, Waves is the used car salesman of the audio plugin world. Certainly not alone in that, but way less trustworthy than a big player like Apple. Who knows what they'd try to pull this time. THAT is the sentiment behind the recent uproar.