iPad and noise.io

[Tony Scharf]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Andrew Tarpinian <evildead at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> Ok in this case your problem it is not so much a closed system but a
> new or different one correct? The only problem is that FL Studio and
> Reaktor etc.. are not available on this iPhone OS. If this tablet ran
> android (or maybe linux) you would have the same problem. Apple wanted
> to create a slick mobile platform - this is not ment for a full blown
> computer environment. Also the full blown computer environment is not
> ready for multi-touch. This is just apple trying to get the gears
> moving with a content consumption device, that just so happens to be
> exciting to me as a content creation device after the wonderful devs
> in the app store get done with it :)

If it had been a full blown computing environment I could have run
whatever I wanted on it.  If it had a non-propriety iTunes dependent
connection system I could attach what I wanted to it.

But as I stated before, Apple is not about choice.  Apple is about
fitting into a certain segment and if it doesnt quite fit, tough.

As it stands, my acer netbook only lacks one thing the iPad has and
that is a multi-touch interface.  What the iPad lacks that my netbook
has is just about everything else.  My netbook is not dependent on me
having another computer to synchronize it with to install software.
My netbook has its own storage, and I can plug in external storage if
I need more.  My netbook has WIFI and I can have 3G or even 4G through
whatever carrier I wish (albeit at a higher prices and with a contract
- Ill concede that is a cool thing for the iPad users).  If I want to
make software for my netbook, and I want to share it with others, I
dont have to submit it for review by some third party who can, at
their whim, decide that my application is not useful or competes with
something they put out.

I have no doubt this thing will sell like made and that people will be
tossing money hand over fist at Apple for every version of it that
comes out.  I just will never be one of them until it can do what my
netbook already does AND give me multi-touch.  They could have done
that, if they had wanted to.

For the everyday average user who doesnt know and doesnt want to this
is good.  I am just not one of them.

Tony