I look forward to the day when smartphone CPU+RAM+Internal storage is at the same level of today's laptops/ultrabooks. I like imagining a world where I carry my phone, but dock it (or wirelessly connect it) to external kb/mouse/monitor, or dock it into a laptop or tablet shell, and have the power of a full DAW, and of course, an OS that supports all of our plugins and hosts.
I've seen dockable laptop shells for notebooks, but we're not 'there' yet, powerwise, to do a laptop replacement with the phone as the CPU/Storage source.
Maybe I went off topic, sorry. Just was thinking about this yesterday.
Microsoft threatened as smartphones and tablets rise, Gartner warn
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- KVRian
- 1395 posts since 16 Jan, 2004
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- KVRian
- 1395 posts since 16 Jan, 2004
Yup, I agree with that. I suppose that this idealist thought stems from the idea that it would be nice to upgrade only 1 major component every couple of years, and unify the main guts of what we use.
It's nice to see things like FL Mobile and the like - it reminds me back to the days when soft synths were just emerging and one could imagine back then the possibilities - doing everything in the box.
It's nice to see things like FL Mobile and the like - it reminds me back to the days when soft synths were just emerging and one could imagine back then the possibilities - doing everything in the box.
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- KVRAF
- 6272 posts since 25 Mar, 2004
I'm looking past that to a time where there will be a direct upload to our central nervous systems. The early interfaces will be crude, of course, and require hardware implants for jacking in, as in the Matrix. By version 4, however, there will, no doubt, be a wireless solution. 
Berfab
So many plugins, so little time...
So many plugins, so little time...
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- KVRian
- 1395 posts since 16 Jan, 2004
I'm on board.... get it? ahahaha... well... uhm. I sort of get it... there's a joke there somewhere...
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- KVRAF
- 14314 posts since 20 Nov, 2003 from Lost and Spaced
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- KVRAF
- 6272 posts since 25 Mar, 2004
I'm pretty sure I was that way BEFORE I got the phone. The phone just has a way of HIGHLIGHTING it.osiris wrote:your phone is making you stupid...
Berfab
So many plugins, so little time...
So many plugins, so little time...
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- KVRAF
- 14314 posts since 20 Nov, 2003 from Lost and Spaced
http://www.zdnet.com/smartphones-transf ... 000021113/
Old man rant: I used to know people's phone number's by memory. Mind you that was a string of 10 numbers for every person....
Now, I don't even remember a 7 letter password.
I just want to get chipped by Google and be done with it.
Old man rant: I used to know people's phone number's by memory. Mind you that was a string of 10 numbers for every person....
Now, I don't even remember a 7 letter password.
I just want to get chipped by Google and be done with it.
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- KVRAF
- 7925 posts since 20 Jan, 2008
Flash is hardly as dead as people think it is. One can easily take an swf and convert it to html5 via swiffy.
https://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/
Granted it does have some issues with Safari browsers because safari is not that html5 complient. The major one being filters.
SWiffy is not as robust as working with flash directly but that's the fault of html5 being still 20 to 30 years behind the capabilities of flash.
HTML5 is not a standard. HTML5 is merely a proposal of The W3C. It also is not universally applied as was the case for it's very broken predecessors html4 etc.
The W3C proposed what they think it should be and browser vendors go thier own sweet direction as to what will or won't work, what they think would be a good idea and how they interpert what html5 means to them. It's caused more headaches for designers who have to test re adjust and test again for different browsers.
MS thinks it's one thing, Apple another, Google a third and so on and so on.
Flex/Air technology which started off with Actionscript is a move away flash and to client side applications with a small footprint that work largely in the cloud.
In regards to dwindling desktop and laptop sales with the rise of tablet sales.
So what. Your average consumer isn't a musician or gamer or programmer. They don't need all that power, never did. My Dad ins't an online gamer. His computer needs are small. Office and the web. A windows tablet is all he needs. He does enjoy reading and has a nook which he really doesn't "need" But he's got more then enough spendable income to afford it and prefers that his secure documents aren't at risk when he takes his nook out.
Current line up of surface2 tablets have all the power that desktops had a few years back. Does everyone need an 17? Prolly not. Whereas in the past when everyone wanted to be a web designer, graphic artist or videographer those people have happily moved away in favor of posting on youtube.
https://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/
Granted it does have some issues with Safari browsers because safari is not that html5 complient. The major one being filters.
SWiffy is not as robust as working with flash directly but that's the fault of html5 being still 20 to 30 years behind the capabilities of flash.
HTML5 is not a standard. HTML5 is merely a proposal of The W3C. It also is not universally applied as was the case for it's very broken predecessors html4 etc.
The W3C proposed what they think it should be and browser vendors go thier own sweet direction as to what will or won't work, what they think would be a good idea and how they interpert what html5 means to them. It's caused more headaches for designers who have to test re adjust and test again for different browsers.
MS thinks it's one thing, Apple another, Google a third and so on and so on.
Flex/Air technology which started off with Actionscript is a move away flash and to client side applications with a small footprint that work largely in the cloud.
In regards to dwindling desktop and laptop sales with the rise of tablet sales.
So what. Your average consumer isn't a musician or gamer or programmer. They don't need all that power, never did. My Dad ins't an online gamer. His computer needs are small. Office and the web. A windows tablet is all he needs. He does enjoy reading and has a nook which he really doesn't "need" But he's got more then enough spendable income to afford it and prefers that his secure documents aren't at risk when he takes his nook out.
Current line up of surface2 tablets have all the power that desktops had a few years back. Does everyone need an 17? Prolly not. Whereas in the past when everyone wanted to be a web designer, graphic artist or videographer those people have happily moved away in favor of posting on youtube.
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- KVRAF
- 12264 posts since 7 Sep, 2006 from Roseville, CA
With regard to Sonar/Cakewalk, we're already seeing them delve into OSX/iOS. Their synths are already available in VST/AU for Mac, and they recently released the ScratchPad app for iOS. I won't be surprised if the next version of Sonar is available for Mac - hell, I'd be delighted, since I use PC and Mac.Zaman wrote:As windows becomes niche and marginalized, will windows only DAWs like Sonar still only work on Windows?
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- KVRAF
- 7925 posts since 20 Jan, 2008
So what. PC's still rule the desktop and laptop market in as far as sales goes.
They will for quite sometime. MS tablets are much more powerful then ipads, sell more and cost less. MS tablets run on ...Windows.
Will apple every release a free version of Garageband for Windows? Most likely not. Will Apple ever release a version of Garageband for Windows at all? Again highly unlikely. Apple is trying and doing rather well at shutting down rather then encouraging software development for programs on thier computer operating systems. They want a closed market and if they could get something to run like Office that is office compatible that would be gone in a heartbeat.
The OSX music software field is dominated by Apple and to a very very small part Avid. The cash cow of Avid isn't thier music software that's pennies compared to the hardware sales from Avid.
They will for quite sometime. MS tablets are much more powerful then ipads, sell more and cost less. MS tablets run on ...Windows.
Will apple every release a free version of Garageband for Windows? Most likely not. Will Apple ever release a version of Garageband for Windows at all? Again highly unlikely. Apple is trying and doing rather well at shutting down rather then encouraging software development for programs on thier computer operating systems. They want a closed market and if they could get something to run like Office that is office compatible that would be gone in a heartbeat.
The OSX music software field is dominated by Apple and to a very very small part Avid. The cash cow of Avid isn't thier music software that's pennies compared to the hardware sales from Avid.
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- KVRian
- 667 posts since 4 Jun, 2002
Heh, yeah, I actually had Dave Bradley as a professor around the time all of that was unfolding. He was pushing hard for IBM to jump in but would complain in class (very tactfully) of not getting much traction. A bit later, when OS/2 flopped and UX machines were replacing IBM 370 systems the press was gleefully calling IBM a soon to be dead dinosaur. They were every bit as reviled as MS ever was in the industry as they literally owned almost every segment of corporate computing.robojam wrote:PC's didn't kill IBM, IBM's lack of vision allowed Microsoft to take a very profitable segment of the market that could have been theirs. Not PC's, but the operating systems that ran on them. IBM was never 'killed' or under threat of extinction.
The hardware was manufactured by a variety of companies of which IBM was only one - it's unlikely that they could have retained a monopoly on that, but they certainly didn't have the vision that MS had to take a bigger slice of the pie.
Anyway, yes they missed an opportunity, like MS may be doing, but they both concentrated on the core bread and butter customers which is/was corporate computing, not consumer products. I think internally MS probably long ago conceded that market to Apple, et al, and is probably happy with that choice. Losing floor space at BestBuy isn't going to kill them.
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- KVRian
- 667 posts since 4 Jun, 2002
All of the above said, the Asus T-100 tablet ought to be getting traction... windows 8.1 (both full and Metro), a full keyboard/mouse dock included, and both USB 3 and HDMI ports all for under $300 during black friday.