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Future = IOS7 Goodbye iPad First Gen
sam.spoons:
If one is going to criticise Apple then pretty much all the same criticisms can be directed at Microsoft, I'm not an Apple Fanboy but I am a late convert to the Fruit's products. After many years of fighting PC's and Windoze (having to learn a completely new OS paradigm every 18 months, struggling to make various random PC hardware work ect) I bought an old (8 year old in fact) Power Mac which turned out to be faster than my wife's 3 month old Win 7 PC (and cost me half as much).
Apple products are not perfect (far from it TBF) but neither are MS based PCs (and Win 8 is just horrible :'( )
Wynnd:
For all the complaints of Win 8, I think MS is on the correct track with a touch screen OS. I've gotten so used to using my ipad and iphone, that my next laptop will have to have a touch screen. Maybe they shouldn't have changed the desktop so much, but it's the right direction and outside the touch screen, Apple's been doing something similar. (moving towards one appearance on the screen.) I can't bring myself to use the app style, but I forced myself to move to the inverted way of using a mouse and now Windows feels screwball. When I get my touch screen, I will be ready. (Just not ready to give up on my 4 year old macbook pro yet.) I have yet to hear of any Windows 8 complaints that don't involve the tiles screen. It runs fine. (And I wish MS would quit renaming things. That happens every single OS change. I'm expecting files to be renamed lambskins in the near future.)
WK154:
You both missed the point I was trying to make. It's not about reliability of equipment or Microsoft or any of the other usually unsubstantiated claims. It's about a philosophy that tramples on your freedoms on both sides of the oceans for personal gains and control. Apple is far from the only company or governments doing so. It up to you to vote with your money to approve or disapprove that practice. When I say PC it doesn't mean Microsoft there are many other solutions a lot of which you take for granted such as the Internet and NOT running on OS X or Windows.
Wynnd:
Wasn't missing your point. Was making a few of my own. My Son has a company supplied iphone 5 and doesn't use Siri because it runs on Apple's servers. I understand the privacy issue and I'm more likely to not provide my phone number when asked for it from a merchant. (They really don't need it and the one auto dealership that insists on it has lost my business.) I've also built a few Linux and Netware machines over the years. (Got a Raspberry Pi in the house. Haven't figured out what to do with it.) My Daughter-in-law refuses to have her face on the internet. Don't know the reason, but I'm sure it's a good one. Her facebook page's avatar is a no-cameras icon. I find it funny.
seventhson:
I understand where you are coming from but.....
The way I look at it, when I bought my last few analog mixers (the latest being the A&H MixWiz) I knew that I "got what I bought". That was it. As it stood was what I was going to be using until I retired it. I did buy the Lightning 1608 but I know eventually I'll have to get either A: A new iPad, or B: retire this board and go with a new board at that time. I know it sucks that your iPad 1 is going to be obsolete but like others have said, it was on the way out when you got the Mackie and its not really Mackies fault. If I were you I would just not bother to upgrade MF at this time (as long as it works, why not run with it). When the new iPads come out, people will be dumping their old 3s and 4s to upgrade (I see 2s all over ebay for ~$200 now). Id give my kids the 1 and let them have fun with it and move on at that time. To me at least, dropping another $200-$300 down the road a few years for new and improved functionality is well worth it. I get more than that per gig so its a good investment. But I'm used to mixing on that old reliable A&H MixWiz for the last few years with no functionality improvements. If I wanted to improve something (IE add some gates or another effects processor) I'd have to drop $200-$300+ anyway.
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