Originally posted by Irishacts:
I think it greatly depends on what you mean. MultiTouch Screen will be heavily featured on everything in the future as a controller, but the iPad as a musical tool it's really only every going to be a “Play Thing” to mess around on or a scratch pad for an idea or two.
It's operating system and it's price tag will ultimately be the reason why it will die a death very soon. Why buy an iPad with a limited closed OS when you can buy a full blown Windows 7 Tablet for less and that can do anything you want.
My 2 cents.
James.
You know whats the difference between an apple OS and a Windows OS, on apple products everything works as intended, On windows systems you allways find yourself tweaking and changing settings to get things to run perfect, Both companies make more money from their products then what would be healthy...
Apple makes products for the happy few, windows products are for the masses..
In the end Apple will survive as the happy few can pay it, WIndows will slowly vaporize while open source products take its place...
THe I-pad has a broad future as mediazine.. the paper of the future where foto's, movies, books, magazines all blend together.. Its a special kind of products these pads..and they are not meant or created for making music..
So this is where we agree, soon there will be instruments with multi touch screens 76 keys and 22" multi touch screens that are also pressure sensitive. These will allow you the ultimate freedom in making music weather you play classical Instruments or use it as a beat box..
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