[NewMusic] Baby's First iWonk

[Praemedia]

ugh. wouldn't buy a sony if my life depended on it, specifically for those reasons. they also have an incredibly closed and arcane sound software model which does not play nice with better sound equipment, such as firewire or usb soundcards.....

--- On Fri, 10/31/08, Robair, Gino <Gino.Robair at penton.com> wrote:

> From: Robair, Gino <Gino.Robair at penton.com>
> Subject: [NewMusic] Baby's First iWonk
> To: "New Music" <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
> Date: Friday, October 31, 2008, 1:10 PM
> Praemedia:
> <<reading your reply just now, you proved my point.
> apple is a monolith.
> microsoft depends on a distributed system of hardware
> software companies
> (though it took them a while to realize this). i just hate
> to see music go
> the way of ipod/itunes closed systems, which is, in my
> opinion, really the
> only "evil" thing apple is doing at the moment
> (aside from all the
> "necessary" evils of doing business). >>
> 
> I prefer the Sony model, where you have every level of
> "entertainment"
> covered: Content creation (software such as Acid, sample
> libraries, etc),
> digital audio editors, recording devices, playback devices
> (pro AND
> consumer), a mega-media company (record label, film house,
> etc), a
> distribution arm for each thing, etc, etc.
> 
> 
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