On Thu, October 11, 2012 12:11 pm, Paul Davis wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Patrick Shirkey > <pshirkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> wrote: > >> >> What makes the Audio industry so special that it can ignore the >> direction >> that other industries are moving? >> > > hmm. things move in many directions at once. > > arguably the biggest shift in income-based-on-selling-software in the last > several years has come from the iOS app model. its true that the embedded > markets and selling to professional users have the potential for moderate > size revenue if you can offer the products/functionality that are needed. > but one could easily argue that the direction other industries are moving > right now is "to the tablet". check the emergence of ipad-based "cash > registers" for example. > > clearly, that's not the only direction things are moving in. but the point > is that there is no single direction. > No doubt about that but tablets suffer from cooling and energy issues that have been solved for many years on desktop and server solutions. Also a single 64 core machine is going to outperform a render farm of 64 tablets both on price and efficiency. Not as portable but portability is not usually a core requirement for production systems. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
