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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3367 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Apple Unveils The iPad Pro

In this house right now:

- Apple TV

- Two Macbook Airs

- Ipad Mini

- Original iPod

- Two Airport Extremes

- Iphone 5S

- Burly-as-fuck Mac Pro (the old, good kind)

- Mac Mini

By the time I bought my first mac I'd built a dozen PCs. My father maintained a network of a thousand of them. The first time I helped swap a hard drive we used a soldering iron. I was running Adaptec SCSI cards when some of their troubleshooting instructions involving checking continuity on traces with a voltmeter.

But I bought my first mac 14 years ago so I can safely say I've had my feet in both camps.

Apple has gone to shit. Total, utter shit. Yaay. iPad Pro. Can I get a Mac Pro that I can put cards into that will run faster than my eight year old tower that doesn't cost nine thousand dollars?

And yeah - I know 60% of their revenue is now phones, and 10% is computers. But I'm really looking forward to Huawei eating their fucking lunch.

I'm having to seriously contemplate building a goddamn PC to run Pro Tools. It's f'n ridiculous. The "high end" that used to trickle down? We're just sitting around hoping they open-source OSX and get it over with because sweet baby jesus this is untenable.





user-inactivated  ·  3367 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    We're just sitting around hoping they open-source OSX and get it over with because sweet baby jesus this is untenable.

Not going to happen, but I bet a few high end audio software vendors throwing developer time or money at GNUStep could get whatever services they need from OsX cloned so they can port elsewhere relatively easily.

kleinbl00  ·  3367 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That would be:

- Apple (not going to happen)

- Yamaha (operates on Mac and Win)

- Avid (operates on Mac and Win)

So yeah. Double-plus not going to happen.

user-inactivated  ·  3367 days ago  ·  link  ·  

GNUStep supports Windows, if you're into that. Moving a whole ecosystem is more easily done by porting the infrastructure than by rewriting all the applications.

kleinbl00  ·  3367 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, it ain't me, though.

The problem is also the plugins. You'd have to move all the plugins, and I've probably got 100 from 20 different vendors.

Sucks.