Re: Jack at the OS level? No way!
Re: Jack at the OS level? No way!
- Subject: Re: Jack at the OS level? No way!
- From: Ian Kemmish <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:20:10 +0000
On 22 Jan 2007, at 7:54 pm, Mikael Sundstr?m <email@hidden> wrote:
I think this is entirely a business decision. Think about it for a
minute: Apple gives away Garageband for free, preinstalled on every
machine, integrated with the rest of the i-suite. Anyone who can
click a mouse can instantly "create their own music". Kind of hard
for anyone to compete with that, don't you think?
Of course it's hard. If you want to earn the big bucks doing only
the easy things, I have a ton of spam with hot stock picks I can send
you:-)
You don't say what, precisely, it is that you think prevents any
third party company from adopting just the same "free, better, best"
stratification for their product family. It's certainly possible to
envisage free entry-level products that are differentiated from
GarageBand to appeal either to smarter or to dumber users.
[A piece of history. When I first showed my PostScript clone at a
trade show, the press covering the show remarked that one thing the
world didn't need was another PostScript interpreter since the market
was already full. A few years later, mine was the last one left
standing. Just remember that every problem is an opportunity....]
Back to the original question, and as someone who's been peppered
with product "advice" from bystanders myself, I suspect two things
may be happening:
1) What a small group of consultants working on an Open Source
project perceive as "a lot of interest", Apple, being a lot bigger,
doesn't.
2) Apple knows that there are a significant number of third-party
loopback solutions out there, many of them free; they may not be
aware of the reliability issues from which, as far as my experience
goes, these solutions suffer.
So no need for either malice *or* incompetence as the explanation:-)
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Ian Kemmish 18 Durham Close, Biggleswade, Beds
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email@hidden Tel: +44 1767 601361 Mob: +44 7952
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