[LAU] [LAD] Linux Audio 2012: Is Linux Audio moving forward?

[Patrick Shirkey]

On Thu, October 11, 2012 12:11 pm, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Patrick Shirkey
> <pshirkey at boosthardware.com
>> 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.



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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd