On 1/16/07, Jason Hollis <contact@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There's the aforementioned potentiality for a pocket
Lemurthereminsoftsynthwhatever.
http://developer.apple.com/macosx/dashboard.html
Additional nerds eye view:
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/14/1835221&from=rss
Based on the links just posted, there's ZERO potential for a
Lemur/softsynth ... Widgets appear to be very UN-powerful. Basically,
it appears you can do the equivalent of creating a fancy web page (
that's what javascript, html, and css are normally used for), with
access to a bit extra from OsX. I must wonder, did you actually read
the info there? Nowhere does it say you can code anything like a real
app, and again, that's what you need to make it into a Lemur.
Unless some major music software company can be convinced to create a
cool app for the iPhone, which I suppose is possible, it seems to have
little multimedia use.
As far as it being based on a closed software model, I must add: maybe
you've never experienced the pleasure of coding your own apps to do
music or multimedia art, but I assure you that once you do, it really
changes your perspective. I'm a complete newbie at it, but I certainly
see that as the way of the future. Someday I imagine I'll never have
to touch mainstream software at all... From this point of view, the
iPhone looks like a step in the wrong direction.
~David
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