On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Dan MacDonald wrote: > Louigi wanted feedback and thats what he's getting. Everyones opinion is > valid if its realistic and well reasoned which I'd say all the comments have > been so far - hopefully that includes me! :) It does :) > decade before app stores became a catchphrase. The amount of dross in the > Play market and in Apples store is staggering - I wouldn't even consider the > majority of whats available from them as real, useful apps - most are more > like installable ads and thinly-veiled spyware. You know, I was sitting next to a fellow co-worker few days ago who was, in fact, swearing, because he couldn't find a certain useful productivity app for the "big" OSX (on a Macbook) which he had on his iPad. He was actually quite ready to spend $100 on an HDMI adapter and get himself a display so that he could get his work done. > would be nice if in a few years this trend could change so that people are > using Linux to record with because it has become a superior audio production > platform but for that we may need Apple to screw up OSX as hard as MS have > with Windows 8 and more than just Bitwig + a few extra plugins. I really like how willingly people claim that Microsoft screwed Windows 8. It's not as sales actually started already. > To be honest though, I could care less about world domination for Linux. I'd > be happy if it wasn't just outright ignored by hardware manufacturers and > they had the good sense to at least co-operate with the Linux community but > there lies our chicken & egg. No, really? Last thing I heard is that vendors of Firewire audio devices were quite willing to give specs to FFADO folks and even send hardware, and it was a shame that there were so few FFADO folks to make use of those specs. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
