Audulus bluetooth speaker9/20/2023 ![]() ![]() For me, the Surface is the best Windows device I’ve ever owned – simple, relatively intuitive – nice update mechanisms – transparent. ![]() Yes FL is touch enabled, but the Surface experience is full of compromises as it’s trying to bridge both worlds. This whole Surface vs iPad Pro discussion is interesting but off base. It’s about catering to rich consumers who fancy themselves as professionals. It’s no longer about catering to professionals. Apart from maybe that stylus, but that’s surely not the reason anybody’s buying a thousand dollar tablet, is it? Less connectivity, less power, less features that would actually benefit a professional, or even semi-professional user. The iPad Pro to my mind feels like the next logical step in Apple’s current ‘Pro’ strategy. Sure, having two Thunderbolt 2 ports is nice (although already nearing obsolescence), but nothing supports them. Sure, the Retina screen is nice, but nothing supports it. Paltry connectivity, middling integrated graphics, mediocre CPU performance, and Yosemite is a bug-riddled mess of an OS. Now I own a late 2014 Macbook Pro, and sure, while it’s more svelte than its 2007 ancestor, it feels less like a ‘Pro’ and more like what a baseline Macbook should be. Leopard felt like a stable and mature operating system. I could hook up almost any reasonably recent audio interface and get lightning-fast performance. Both were incredible machines for their time. Started off with a Powermac Dual G5 and a 1st-gen Macbook Pro. I’ve been using Apple hardware for nearly a decade now. Split-screen multi-tasking in OS9 might be the start of a change in that regard, but I expect to continue to see Apple hampering it in an effort to get everyone doing things their way, instead of making tools that let people do things whatever way they choose. The entire OS is built around the general idea that you will always only be doing one thing at a time. The problem isnt that the multi-timbral synths are too complex, is that Apple THINKS you’re too stupid to be able to use your machine in such a complicated manner. programmers are just as limited in what APIs and “design guidelines” you have to follow- or you risk the possibility of arbitrarily having your app removed from their store for violating their rules. iOS is designed to be as simple as possible, heck, we didnt even get multitasking until the third or fourth version of the OS… Apple designs their interfaces to be as simple as possible and the app design is a reflection of that. What he’s really getting at when he says “complexity” doesnt have to do with the synth itself but with the design of the OS. we’ve been running soft synths on our computers since the late 90s, to say a mobile chip isnt powerful enough to run a multi-timbral synth is silly. processor is plenty strong enough to do the job. The problem is RAM, not the power of the processor. The iPad Pro is expected to be available in November, with this pricing:
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