The beginning of the end of the PC?

[TimberWolf]

Not in the music recording world for a long time I suspect.

The irony is that the origins of the smartphone lay in the music listening business!

[Cliphead]

I spend most of my day in a shell session so easily done from a tablet device and at a push from a smartphone (emergencies only). Second to that is a browser followed by email, I rarely use anything else for work other than needing several server builds for testing and developing either physical or VM.

Music recording requires a powerful PC, dual monitors and sometimes three and all the associated hardware and software, that will never be replaced with a smartphone or tablet

[Cliphead]

The irony is that the origins of the smartphone lay in the music listening business!

And a perfect application for a smartphone. Bit of a shame people listen to the degraded audio quality that is MP3 almost exclusively.

[alreadypacked]

I don't hate Macs, but they do give me a syncing feeling | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian

^ this says it all for me in a much better way than I ever could

Quite a good read, thanks.

[2BIT]

Not in the music recording world for a long time I suspect.

as someone who uses a pc for music I recognise that macs are generally used in most pro setups but found that there were far less available plug-ins for macs and have seen a friends mac completely shut down with no warning 3 times in an hour during a session - so for music macs can be in many ways superior but in many ways aren't

[d000hg]

Games consoles have shown that keyboard+mouse is far better for some genres. Touch-screen isn't the ultimate solution IMO especially for typing. How is it going to compete with having 2 30" monitors and an ergonomic keyboard?

[VectraMan]

as someone who uses a pc for music I recognise that macs are generally used in most pro setups but found that there were far less available plug-ins for macs and have seen a friends mac completely shut down with no warning 3 times in an hour during a session - so for music macs can be in many ways superior but in many ways aren't

Macs only got a jump in music and publishing because they had better software, not because there was anything inherently better about Macs.

Maybe what will happen in the workplace is tablets will augment PC use. You can imagine someone writing a Powerpoint presentation on a PC, but then taking a tablet into a meeting as a remote control for another device that's projecting said presentation. So tablets won't kill PCs; anybody who has a reason will have both.

[2BIT]

Yes, captures the Apple philosophy completely.

I can imagine switching on my old iPod/iPad/iPhone one day soon and it will simply show a screen saying "Product obsolete, please enter your credit card to order latest product (£500) or swipe to selfdestruct".

You never own an Apple product, you are merely paying to rent it until next month when the new and almost identical replacement becomes available.

Hurry up MS/Google and make a decent tablet OS and let the Chinese clone manufacturers knock out the hardware for £99 and see how Apple fair then.

the amazing thing is that I don't think Apple have ever exceeded 5% market share so reckon they could well go back to being the slightly obscure specialist vendor they were in the 90's

[TimberWolf]

Games consoles have shown that keyboard+mouse is far better for some genres. Touch-screen isn't the ultimate solution IMO especially for typing. How is it going to compete with having 2 30" monitors and an ergonomic keyboard?

I've deleted all racing games off my iPod touch that rely on tilting the device to steer. For one thing I can't see where I'm going when I've tilted the screen 45 degrees.

Is there any reason why touch screen typing, that can be tailored to the size of an individuals hands (albeit give a large enough screen area to play with), need be slower than typing on a mechanical keyboard? If a pressure response or feedback is what's missing, there's always Quantum Tunnelling Composites on the way. iPad3?

[2BIT]

Macs only got a jump in music and publishing because they had better software, not because there was anything inherently better about Macs.

back in the day the old ataris were more stable than wintel/macs anyway

once logic/pro tools went over to the pc there wasn't much in it