Re: [microsound] iPhone iSux

[Owen Green <owen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason,

I don't know what potential you see, but what there is, is certainly way 
short of what the processor inside the thing would let you do with free 
reign.

Basically those widgets mean that about the heaviest things you'll be 
able to do are run shell scripts or talk to some server app (slowly) 
over http.

There will be no potential for audio apps without access to a compiler / 
linker for a low-level language that allows essential things like thread 
access and what have you. There may be potential for an OSC client if, 
for example, a reasonably functional version of Java is shipped, but 
this isn't promised, and nor is any guarantee that there'll be a way of 
getting these widgets to talk meaningfully to Java apps.

In short, I think you're overselling it somewhat.

About the best hope is someone writing new, open firmware for it as has 
happened for the iPod. But that's a bugger to do, so by the time it 
happens we'll all probably have moved on and be using neural controllers 
 on stage.

--
Owen


Jason Hollis wrote:
> I see potential and those articles confirm it, and I'll laugh all the 
> way to the stage when it is realized.   Or maybe I'll pick up coding 
> again. Whatever.  My point is made for anyone with eyes to see.  This 
> conversation is over.
>
> ~!J!
> http://www.endif.org
> http://www.crunchpod.com


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