I want to say first of all: I realize I'm venting and I do not enjoy placing you (Carl) and the other good folks who put a lot of effort into this forum into a position of having to defend Meridian. That said, I do need to get this off my chest.

I want to enjoy the music, I really do. But if my only UI to my collection is failing, there's not much I can do. I agree that one should buy Meridian for what it is, but Apple having moved the playing field is hardly an excuse. I bought Meridian partly because I thought that using the iPad as the control was a smart approach. It's an approach offers the required flexibility to add features and fix defects. Being an Apple developer, Meridian presumably had access to iOS 7 and retina displays months before release � they knew where the playing field was going to be. Besides, the iOS 7 upgrade is not the only issue I'm complaining about, we've all discussed (and reported to our dealers) numerous bugs and enhancement requests to Core Control.

M chose this product strategy, so they should invest and prioritize accordingly. Besides, if I were evaluating M today "for what it is", it would fail to meet my standards, so applying that rule cuts both ways.