KVR Audio

kpsychedelic · Post by **kpsychedelic** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:33 am

Uncle E wrote: That's iMaschine for me. However, I'd rather have a Win8 tablet running the full Maschine.

I think this year will be boring but next year we'll see more of the little devices that could, in the sense of high end smartphones that transform and Win8-based tablets that work quite well and better than the first batch of Win7-based netbooks (I have one, and it blows real hard, Atom-based, 'nough said, I feel like a total n00b for buying that piece of crap).

With the upcoming Intel architecture (not really Ivy, but the new "Core X something whatever"), who knows, if Intel can play it well like it did with Core i (they basically slapped Core 2 Duos to oblivion), then I see no reason why these upcoming 2013-2014 tablets can become the perfect compromise between "I wanna run my desktop OS" and "I don't want a bulky laptop".
Although there are also ultrabooks now, and I can only see them improving (and Intel has been pushing the concept real hard as of lately).

Jim Rosebrook wrote:This is not specific to the iPad 3, rather what is coming along with iOS 5.1 and the wave of app updates..

The tweaks to GarageBand are fun & handy... upload straight to SoundClound...nice!

What I wanna see more, is developers enabling iCloud on their apps... so far only a few do, and I feel like iCloud was more of a nice commercial thing for only Apple apps yet the other million out there lack the support for it.

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:55 am

kpsychedelic wrote: What I wanna see more, is developers enabling iCloud on their apps... so far only a few do, and I feel like iCloud was more of a nice commercial thing for only Apple apps yet the other million out there lack the support for it.

All it takes for that is a decent, OS-wide file system. But, all too clearly, Apple doesn't agree with that being a useful thing.
The entire file organisation system on iOS is as bad as it gets. I feel being treated like a 5 year old. "No, user, you are *much* too dumb to deal with any sort of a file system, so you need all our iTunes bullshit!"

- Sascha

J.C · Post by **J.C** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:27 am

Oh yes,

If I could find all my Apps on the Android Store, and if latency weren't an issue, then I would switch to Androïd...

Never seen such a stupid file system, thanks Sandboxing...

And they want to do the same to OSX.... Linux here I come...

IncarnateX · Post by **IncarnateX** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 4:41 pm

Sascha Franck wrote: I feel being treated like a 5 year old. "No, user, you are *much* too dumb to deal with any sort of a file system, so you need all our iTunes bullshit!"- Sascha

I agree that its a PITA and actually the only reason I jailbreaked my device. But I do not think it is due to a patronizing philosophy towards the customers that apple has crippled the iOS this way. It is rather corporational paranoia towards the developers with regard to security and functionality. An app must not connect to anything outside it's own directory apart from accepted gateways like the pasteboard. The idea is obviously to hinder programs to affect each others functionality or collect info from each other in any way.

Whether this reallly is a good idea and can hinder malware, crashes etc. is a question beyond my technical abilities, but from a user perspective it comes at a fairly high price, I must say. But again: Jailbreak is an option, is reversible and perfectly legal, so you have a choice.

Cheers

polaris20 · Post by **polaris20** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:03 pm

IncarnateX wrote:
Sascha Franck wrote: I feel being treated like a 5 year old. "No, user, you are *much* too dumb to deal with any sort of a file system, so you need all our iTunes bullshit!"- Sascha
I agree that its a PITA and actually the only reason I jailbreaked my device. But I do not think it is due to a patronizing philosophy towards the customers that apple has crippled the iOS this way. It is rather corporational paranoia towards the developers with regard to security and functionality. An app must not connect to anything outside it's own directory apart from accepted gateways like the pasteboard. The idea is obviously to hinder programs to affect each others functionality or collect info from each other in any way.

Whether this reallly is a good idea and can hinder malware, crashes etc. is a question beyond my technical abilities, but from a user perspective it comes at a fairly high price, I must say. But again: Jailbreak is an option, is reversible and perfectly legal, so you have a choice.

Cheers

As I've already said multiple times, it is indeed platform security and stability that drives Apple to do it this way. Yeah, it sucks for those of you that wish to have file system access. But there's a reason besides just screwing over the user.

J.C · Post by **J.C** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 7:25 am

There is a reason for everything, doesn,t mean that it's a good one or that we couldn't do it a different way...

polaris20 · Post by **polaris20** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:04 pm

J.C wrote:There is a reason for everything, doesn,t mean that it's a good one or that we couldn't do it a different way...

Of course it's possibly not a good reason. I'm just saying the reason is NOT to simply screw users, the reason that is largely thrown out here.

BMoore · Post by **BMoore** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 7:31 pm

And if your're NOT a five year old, you'd know this before you bought.

polaris20 · Post by **polaris20** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:16 pm

Insaniac wrote:And if your're NOT a five year old, you'd know this before you bought.

Pretty much. Never understood how people can complain about stuff that a piece of technology and/or equipment doesn't have. We all have the Internet. Read specs. Accept that it doesn't have it, and buy it, or don't buy it, or buy it and jailbreak/root it.

Complaining about it ad nauseam on an Internet forum gets nobody anything or anywhere.

Breeze · Post by **Breeze** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 12:48 pm

This iFixit Teardown of the iPad 3 confirms 1 GB RAM. That seems to be the only confirmed tech advantage of the iPad 3 vs iPad 2 for music and sound. Hardly a must buy for iPad 2 users who aren't into HD graphics.

sonicflux · Post by **sonicflux** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 1:20 pm

From all reports I've read, the boost in RAM (and in battery capacity), will mostly go towards powering the new display. I'm sure there is some boost in performance, but probably not enough to write home about.

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:59 pm

My iPad 3 is waiting for me at home. I'll report back about it soon.

Breeze · Post by **Breeze** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 8:32 pm

the-only-ipad-reviewer-with-enough-balls-to-tell-you-the-stinking-truth

ZenPunkHippy · Post by **ZenPunkHippy** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 8:50 pm

Breeze wrote:the-only-ipad-reviewer-with-enough-balls-to-tell-you-the-stinking-truth

This is the advert I got before the video started ... kinda sums up the whole Apple / iPad thing perfectly ...

** edit - oops, this is the correct ad ... makes more sense now!

polaris20 · Post by **polaris20** » Sun Mar 18, 2012 6:56 pm

Breeze wrote:the-only-ipad-reviewer-with-enough-balls-to-tell-you-the-stinking-truth

I was dreading it at first due to Gizmodo having a lot of lingering butt-hurt towards Apple, but that was damn funny!

I've got the new iPad. The screen is great, it feels nice and fast, and overall it's just a bit nicer than the 2. Coming from a 1, it's a significant move. If you've already got a 2, I can't see there being a good reason to upgrade, unless you really want the higher res screen or the cameras.

It's basically evolutionary; if you liked the 1 and 2, you'll definitely like the 3. If you whined about the 1 and 2, you'll still be whining about the 3.

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