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Confirms my belief that the iPad is for consumption and a laptop/netbook for production. EDIT: of course the question then is if an ordinary user can do with a
by erikstarck 17y ago
Confirms my belief that the iPad is for consumption and a laptop/netbook for production.
EDIT: of course the question then is if an ordinary user can do with an iPad most of the time or not.
When you look at a user generated site there's a 90/9/1-rule, that is, 90% of visitors are viewers only, 9% comment or rate or make small contributions and 1% create stuff.
Perhaps a similar division can be seen in how we use the internet during a day. 90% of the time we only consume - then an iPad is fine. It's the the other 10% we need a laptop with a keyboard.
- stcredzero 17y agoYour comment is biased towards production in the narrow context of computers/web browsing. That sort of activity, for most people, requires a computer keyboard, which the iPad lacks, so it's a foregone conclusion. There are other sorts of activities that do not have a computer keyboard as the most efficient input method. http://hexler.net/software/touchosc http://hexler.net/software/touchosc
- hernan7 17y agoI'm probably nit-picking here, but TouchOSC doesn't generate sound by itself. It is just a controller application that you use to send OSC messages to either a synthesizer or a "real" computer that actually generates the sound. A question for the iPad musicians: Surely there are pro-audio iPad applications that generate sound, but does the sound have to go through the consumer-grade audio output or can you send it to the DAW via the USB add-on?
- stcredzero 17y agoI'm probably nit-picking here, but TouchOSC doesn't generate sound by itself. You're probably missing the point. Interface is the whole point of the iPad. Interface + processing ability is a lot of what the ongoing computer revolution has been and will be about.
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