4 Feb
2012
4 Feb
'12
9:49 a.m.
On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 22:45 +0100, Nick Copeland wrote:
Hi Nick,
this leads me to the issue how much people use tablet computers and for
what usage?
A friend said that lot's of her workmates don't use their PCs and
Laptops anymore, but an iPad instead. None of them is using an Android
tablet computer.
Personally I don't know anybody who owns a tablet computer, neither
Android based, nor an Apple. Only one friend is exited that I won such a
thingy, the others advice me to play a little bit with the iPad and then
I should sell it.
Are those tablet computers just a fashion or are they forerunners of
what we all will use in the future?
Stability? Hazardous waste? I guess to much people will through away
their tablet computers and get a new one, much before the batteries are
dead. PCs and Laptops IMO are used a while longer.
Some friends and I already stopped using mobile phones. There's nothing
wrong with using a mobile phone. I just want to say that there's not
only a trend pro such tools. Some people don't like to be interconnected
all the time.
Regards,
Ralf
1) (care of
lincoln spiteri):
http://subversion.ardour.org/svn/thirdparty/ardroid/
2) Android audio is unusable for anything related to music creation
or
pro-audio.
The incredibly long bug report on this leaves me with only one
feeling: Android's
master's don't care. If they don't care, its hard for me to.
You make very relevant points here and they are hard to argue against.
There is a bigger picture though. The performance of device such as
the ASUS
and Lenovo quad core tablets means android does not need to be
relegated to remote
control. I still fully acknowledge the issues of android's masters and
audio
creation. The thing is that the same issues never stopped Linux audio
from developing,
LAD/LAU laid the grounds for things that the kernel developers are
finally embracing
and that the Android people will also be forced to address.
Perhaps Android will remain another world but I don't see any other
development that
really puts linux so close to mainstream, and it is being ignored by
pretty much the whole
of LAD/LAU. It is fast becoming a missed opportunity - as soon as
Android resolves its
issues of real-time then the commercial audio companies will invade
the space, they have
already expressed that desire and that will leave Linux audio in even
more of a niche.
Regards, nick.