On 02/21/2011 07:52 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Olivier Guilyardi <[email protected]> wrote:
> A key part of the OP's question was "why would anyone use a tablet > when they could use a PC?" The answer is "when the tablet does what > the PC can do and the user would prefer to use the tablet for whatever > reason". This is not tied to the type of app, type of tablet, > capabilities of the audio stack, etc. I see your point, but we're on an Android mailing list, so I kind of read the question as "why would anyone use a [Android] tablet [...]?" And, clearly, DJ'ing and many other advanced music usages are not possible on Android currently. Some things can be done with audio on Android (and I did) but there are many limitations. > I chose this example because: > > -- iPad has been around a wee bit longer, and Android developers would > be wise to learn lessons from what has worked and has not worked on > iPad Right now, I'm afraid, in regard to audio support, that the ones who need to learn lessons are the developers of Android itself. I'm not the one who could give any such lesson, but I know for sure that it's not going right currently. > -- it is related to audio, which is the OP's area of interest (despite > the fact that Ms. Sobhany's specific apps might not be possible on > Android) Then again, it's quite a bad example. It doesn't help the OP to understand what an Android tablet could do. Audio is my main interest too, and with a few other fellows with have created the Andraudio mailing list at: http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/andraudio Audio isn't just any topic when it comes to what one can do on a tablet. Tablets bring tremendous ergonomics and new opportunities for audio software. There even is a professional iPad stand for drummers such as the iKlip: http://www.ikmultimedia.com/iklip/features/ Let's face reality, audio is in a pretty bad shape on Android. Which is one of the main reason why the Andraudio mailing list has been created: to analyze the situation and possibly find solutions. -- Olivier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
