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I’ve been thinking the same thing for a few days now. It will all depend on how Apple positions itself within the new global framework. Since we need to start considering consuming as few products as possible from Trumpland, it’s a possibility that needs to be taken into account.
For music, I've alredy ditch iPad / iPhone ecosystem.....
Also I think I detect the direction Apple is heading over the next immediate few years, and anyone who remembers the bland beige box years of Apple during the John Sculley episode might feel a bit of familiarity with what’s occurring now – this was brought home to me while I was wallpaper-watching the latest YouTube rant from Luke Miani over the pointlessness of the iPhone 16e, and I’m not even in the market for such a thing, I have a 15 Pro Max and it’s good enough to be my camera (although just to be sure I bought a Nikon Z30 and 16-50mm and 12-28mm and 50-250mm lens to leave at home)
I personally think they’re starting to nosedive into another John Sculley-like episode and before long if you weren’t already committed to your Apple surroundings, it’d be an equal decision to pick elsewhere instead, they’re all just competing commodities now
I’ve been thinking about this a lot. My plan is to ditch all the commercial tech at some point in the near future. The iPad is doing what I need for now and in the now it’s perfect. But, I’m making plans to move away from being reliant on the i-ecosystem. Move more into the 3D world and away from the virtual.
Move my computing purely into Linux for the things I need to use computers for.
A bit similar here. I've been using Linux for over three decades as main OS - both work and privately. I like it, and with distros like "Ubuntu Studio" you can set up a good system for music related things. There are some great plugins and free software synths available. I do love using the iPad(s) for music making. And we have wonderful apps at hand. On the other hand I am not interested in the recent developments and "improvements" in the IT world. I am not interested in AI and fancy foldable screens and prefer simpler systems with a long lifespan. And where I am "root" (the IT equal to "god"), and not some company.
Oh that’s a tough one. Knowing that there’s no real competition on the mobile market other than devices running android makes me pessimistic in that regard. Android’s audio engine or dedication to audio doesn’t seem to be on par with Apples. So music making definitely wouldn’t be the reason to switch.
It would have to be some sort of Windows device for music.
I’ll definitely procrastinate that decision to the last possible moment 😅
What are you going to do with this information?
Profit, through blackmail
Don’t forget there’s the possibility of novel or at least minority platforms to emerge into a much more mainstream arena
Many of you know that I’m quite in favour of microcontrollers, and even SBCs such as the Raspberry Pi, and most of what we used to think of as microcontrollers are getting very well equipped, with WiFi, display driving, multicore, comprehensive USB capabilities, etc and of course GPIO
I foresee a growing situation where ‘apps’ (such as for our synth world) can be installed on microcontrollers and SBCs with some way of making money for the manufacturers of these apps – the presence of GPIO is not to be underestimated because media apps could take advantage of lots of knobs switches and suchlike, and have greater flexibility than what we’re used to within the restrictions of iOS devices
I don’t know, I think these very good modern microcontrollers (ESP32, riscV, RP2350 etc) will become more of a draw as time goes on, pulling people toward them if there’s an easy and understandable way for more people to use them
Ableton on Linux.
I'm only using Apple for iPhone / iPad now. I'm not convinced android will ever support a music app ecosystem like iOS. So I'll probably never switch off the iPad as long as I want a music production tablet.
I could see moving off iPhone, as I started using it to have a smaller music device for jamming, but I do that less now. I do like the iPhone experience more than android though, and used iPhones have treated me well.
I wouldn't be too much afraid when it comes to this one .. as much as i understand how it works it's quite safe.. Vast majority of stuff is happening directly on your phone - and this is something easily to be verified by third party security experts and analytics so Apple really can't do some shady work here cause everybody would know in no second.
My other problem with Apple "Intelligence" is it is completely dumb :-) It's basically crap ... combination of Perplexity.AI for searching information and Sider.AI (which has access to all major LLM models) is all i ever needed for AI-related tasks ..
If geoshred and animoog controllers emerged elsewhere I would drop Apple tomorrow. If I ever acquire a Linnstrument, I'm probably never buying another ipad.
You think using a China-based computing environment and cloud storage are less of a personal threat to you and your information than Apple? I have potentially world-changing news for you. Unless you're a party member in the CCP, you are a servant of China and you don't matter as an individual. You either serve the party and the state or you are what's next for dinner.
If Feloneous Musk ever bought Apple
There’s little chance of Elon Musk buying Apple, but it’s still within the realm of possibility that Apple could one day buy Tesla. Musk tried to sell Tesla years ago when they were having financial difficulties.
Wrong. It's far worse. It's intelligence of the marketing sort.
Hahaha! 😂 That cracked me up dude.
Don Cheeto ain’t the only one with the nicknames! 😂
😂🤣🤣
Our family is invested pretty deep in the Apple ecosystem. I'd loathe having to go back to PC. I could live with a different phone. If the iPad went away I'd be frustrated by the lost value, but I had a hardware music rig long before starting to use iOS apps and would be fine without them.
Anything that would cause me to abandon Apple would likely cause me to abandon all of it.
But then you’d be the world’s second best linnstrumenter, and that just won’t do.
Macbooks? I've already ditched those. The quality control isn't on par with the price, and Apple is famous for denying widespread quality issues until a few years later they pay out a compensation to US users only. No way I'm getting that hot mess of a laptop again. A Mac Mini though? Can't rule that out, those are great and don't have many things that would break.
Logic Pro? I actually regret paying $200 for it, that's like a couple years of Bitwig updates. It's not that bad, just full of minor annoyances, and has one glaring omission on purpose: no incoming MIDI clock sync. I ended up realizing that, being a musician with a bunch of hardware synths, I'm just not the target audience, and the lack of MIDI clock sync is just a big obvious "FUCK YOU" from Apple to help me realize that.
iPhones? Never had one, and seeing how my SO is constantly annoyed with hers isn't exactly inspiring me to get one.
iPads? Well, that's a much harder question. It has loads of great cheap plugins. But I don't use it for anything except music, and I have a computer at home and a couple great portable grooveboxes for traveling (plus I don't travel much these days). If my iPad suddenly died tomorrow, I'd probably go years before replacing it, since I'm short on cash these days.
NEVER if iPad screen get native touch sensitivity
Same here. Spent the majority of my life using PC and a lot of that time was spent trying to make the machine work. I still have a gaming PC but most of my work is done on mac, ipad.
Heh. I should have given more thought to my user name. It invokes a level of hubris that rubs me the wrong way, but I am too "path dependent" to ever get around to changing it, if there is even a way.
"There is no 'Second Best'!"
I would leave the Apple ecosystem entirely if somebody could move a top quality professional studio with all equipment and a complete selection of instruments into my yard, and then pay the bills for its upkeep and operation indefinitely. Meanwhile I’ll go with what I got.
You all know about Zynthian, but what if there were many more products like this
What if, eg, Korg were to release a kit which was basically a casing with knob surface and display, and inside you installed a CM5 board of your own obtaining and choosing, which you can later upgrade – it’d be a sort of halfway stage between (eg) their Multi/Poly rack level of instrument, and the level of ‘kit’ instrument like the NTS stuff (which I tend to think is a bit gimmicky and potentially dead-end once you’ve outgrown it) – imagine the Zynthian ethos, but with Korg or someone like that behind it
Ha. It's one of my favorite forum handles. I get a little chuckle every time I see it.
PM me if you ever do want to change it.