Re: [microsound] MUTEK musings...

[multipara <multipara@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

sorry if this goes increasingly ot, but:

joshua:

> 3 - Microsoft stole plenty of its GUI ideas from Apple, but Apple 
> took the Mac GUI from Xerox.

the way i know the story is that the gui was developped for xerox but 
they didn't like it so the developpers went ahead with it and founded 
apple.

> 1 - The Mac is lauded for its simplicity, yet is plagued with 
> extension conflicts and often - especially for audio - requires the 
> sort of tweaking in the past associated with Windows.

there's a main connection with that comment and item 1 from above, cited here:

> 1 - I recall reading years ago that Apple had added a major chunk of 
> code to MacOs in order to making more friendly to Microsoft 
> applications.

> 2 - Is it worse (for developers and for users) to grandfather into a 
> dinosaur OS decades of dead code in order to support every system 
> variant under the sun as Microsoft does, or rather in the Apple 
> style to pull the rug out from users' feet every few years with 
> incompatible system upgrades (PPC, OS-X) and hardware evolutions 
> (most recently, bye to ADB, hello to the still not quite functional 
> USB and Firewire)?

that's a new development, also due to item 1.

> Brands are brands:  Coke and Pepsi; Roland and Korg and Yamaha; 
> Cubase and Logic; Reaktor and MAX-MSP; Gibson and Fender; McDonalds 
> and Burger King; Apple and Microsoft.  Music is about sound, not 
> brands.  Musical sound is made by musicians through their 
> instruments (computers or otherwise), not by gear through its users. 
> One asks now of a new Hollywood movie:  with which burger chain is 
> it identified for tie-in marketing?  I hope this branding will not 
> be the case with computer music.

i agree.
p.