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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:08:36 -0500
Subject: Re: [NSL] NAMM and Mac?????
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On 1/24/04 6:17 AM, "Jamm!n Wheeler" <@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@> wrote:

>> One speculation is that Apple is planning to go head to head with Pro Tools!
> 
> I think they'd be foolish to write their own Pro Tools.
Hey Jamm!n,

I don't know about foolish. Whatever turns out, I don't know if Apple can be
accused of directly copying another product. It's an innovative company
looking for market share. Pro Tools...great product, and a leader in it's
field, because of that and lack of any real competition...so far!

What I see is that, Apple has a bit more resources, in all areas, than
Digidesign. What would be foolish, would be NOT to use those resources to
try to open new markets and also take some existing market share for
themselves. There is a large contingent of Pro toolers that also use
Logic...or for whatever reasons wish there was something more capable than
either. 

> Ardour is coming
> up fast and it's free. It only runs on Linux at the moment but the
> smartest thing Apple ever did was switching MacOS to a unix core (shame
> it's BSD but you can't have everything), so there is definitely a chance
> of adapting things like this instead of having to start again.

What is Ardour ..and JACK? Do you have some links?
 
> On the other hand, due to the cost of Macs I would far rather Linux
> continued to blossom as an audio platform thanks to the likes of JACK
> and Ardour. Of course as a sequencer platform it still doesn't compete
> with the ST :)

I'm a HUGE fan of the ST. Made a reasonable good living over the past 10
years...still have 3 working ST's, hardware, software and a library of Start
mags from the 80's. But when we say "doesn't compete with the ST", I hope
you agree that we are being fondly nostalgic, 'cause as endearing as it is,
the only real competition is with the encroaching sands of time :-)

The technology that produced the ST and Notator has moved...not necessarily
for the better, but nevertheless...on! Change is inevitable and anything
that's not moving will eventually be buried in said sands.

Blessings!

Craig

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