Re: [microsound] iPhone iSux

[johan@xxxxxxxxxxx]

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/music/metronomic.html

Hah, no but I think there isn't that many good widgets that could take
advantage of the iPhone out right now because the iPhone isn't out yet.
But I'm sure that there will be. Especially if the phone gets popular.
There isn't any heavy widgets right now because there is no purpose of
having such application in Dashboard contra just straight up OS X.

As for the discussion, I was more aiming towards how it was like watching
a ping pong match. People just love to hate/love certain things and Apple
seem to be one of them. I'm not an Apple fanboy, but I certainly do enjoy
OS X and how it has changed my computer experience. But saying you prefer
pen and paper over the iPhone seems a bit random. Sorry.

Johan.




> Well, what does "3rd party widget" mean exactly? Maybe I'd be more
> interested if someone could give an example. I'm not a mac user, so I
> haven't a clue as to precisely what this implies. If the iPhone
> defenders could give an example of some concrete thing it might do
> that would be interesting, maybe I'd understand their point of why
> this device might be interesting for a musician. So far nobody has
> done that.
>
> Again, even I think it would be cool to use it like Lemur, but from
> what I understand that wouldn't be possible if you can't write your
> own programs for it - you'd need to send OSC (I'd even settle for
> MIDI). But maybe I'm misunderstanding what you could do with these 3rd
> party widgets?
>
> And conversations SHOULD go all over the place. That's what makes them
> interesting. My point was that if I had to choose between the two, I'd
> probably rather have a pen and a paper, than an iPhone. I'd get more
> done with the former. I often code little programs on the bus while
> riding to work every day that way, and plan musical compositions too.
>
> ~David
>
> On 1/16/07, johan@xxxxxxxxxxx <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I think this conversation is going too much all over the place. I think
>> some people on the list, including myself even thought I personally hate
>> cell phones, think the iPhone is interesting because (even thought it
>> doesn't have a full OS X), it has a lot of possibilities when it comes
>> to
>> 3rd party widgets that can turn the thing into a lot of fun things for a
>> musician. That's it doesn't it?
>>
>> I don't see why there has to be a big discussion about it.
>>
>> Johan
>>
>>
>> >
>> > 4. In my opinion, nothing beats the power of pen/pencil and paper.
>> >
>> > ~David
>> >
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