No 'i' stuff here. Although in the future...I heard Apple and Microsoft were collaborating on a new OS, called iWin. ;-)

Regards

Our house is a mixture of Windows, Apple iStuff and Android devices. I use whatever gives me the best user experience. Depending on what the device/application is, it could be any one of the three.

Erm... two apple devices (well, three really) in our house. I shunned their iPod range for some time and preferred to use "other" mp3 players. But I was put in hospital back in 2009 and the company I was working with me at the time had a whip round and they bought me a 16mb iPod Nano.

Now it would have been rude of me not to use it, so I stuck with it, even loaded iTunes, and eventually I got into it and it became my most used mp3 player. But I only use iTunes to manage my music and I still prefer to use Windows Media Player to rip my own CD collection to 320kbps mp3 files.

Since then I have recently upgraded to the latest iPod Nano, and I love it to bits. Sorry.

Then, in a fit of madness last year, I bought my missus a Macbook Pro. I looked at other options, but I had to admit, at the time, that I liked the build and feel of the macbook.

Trouble is, my missus never really took to it. She uses it, but prefers her desktop. And expensive outlay, but there ya go. At least I've tried one out. Would I get another. No.

I was neutral about Apple until they took Logic from me. From that day on Apple has been the evil company. 

Guys we can bash apple all we want but Ipad and iPhones are what the young people want.

This massive undiscerning market demand is not lost on Microsoft either, and it bodes ill for the future of affordable specialty workstations from any vendor. There is serious thinking in Redmond that the "old" windows needs to be replaced by the new "app friendly" OS, which is not just an interface that looks like a cell phone, but a programming platform that will not run the old style applications. I am serious when I say that Cakewalk needs to re-write Sonar to run on a smart phone. There is no guarantee that consumer versions of Windows in the future will still be able to run serious software. Ultra-pricey workstation versions may still be built, but the cost of development and maintenance cannot be spread out over millions of users--think Windows 10 Penultimate at $500.00 + per year per license available in a minimum of 20 licenses per site. And the inability of application developers to sell to the masses will raise their costs as well.


Meanwhile Intel has announced that future CPU chips will need to be soldered to the motherboard. That should pretty much guarantee that the flexibility in choices for workstations will be severely limited and that specialized computers will cost much more to build and buy. Instead of building a dozen motherboard models with an inexpensive socket capable of running a dozen or more chips, the MB makers will have to front the cost of CPU's and figure out how not to get stuck with leftover stock. The usual solution is to make fewer models and aim the ones you make for sale at the general market. Models with limited specialty demand will be rare and expensive. Think Ford vs Ferrari.

When I bought our 2 new MacBook Pros, my wife sold her 5 years old MacBook (not pro) which needed minor repair for... $400.

The two PCs I had used during those last 5 years and which were gathering dust in the basement had to be taken to a recycling facility. Cost me gas + access to site to get rid of them.

So as far as $ is concerned...

Same story with LOGIC PRO. Its keep getting old and outdate and nothing new the last 7 years...

The jumbo price of "The worse outdate DAW platform ever" is still Pro Tools!
95% of all my professional producer colleague that use to be users of Pro Tools HD has left that platform the last 10 years. They all use something else like Cubase, LOGIC, Samplitude, Sonar, Studio One.

Freddie H


Same story with LOGIC PRO. Its keep getting old and outdate and nothing new the last 7 years...

Latest version is 9, Freddie. 
It came out in 2009. 
The latest free update dates from a month or two. ;)

Jimbo 88


I've never jumped on the Apple bandwagon.  Seems I always could find a cheaper, more versatile alternative.  I'm like Bitflipper..no iphone, ipods, ipads.

I have used Iphone....will never go back to that again! Wow what a sucking phone ever... Can't even support flash player same with ipad. What a re-tard product!

Rain

Freddie H


Same story with LOGIC PRO. Its keep getting old and outdate and nothing new the last 7 years...

Latest version is 9, Freddie. 
It came out in 2009. 
The latest free update dates from a month or two. ;)

Yeah Rain...It speaks for itself!