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digital will never replace analog :)

... but if it does, it will be designed to simulate the anomalies we were trying to eliminate with analog in the first place..

mp3s will never replace Cassettes.

Technology just keeps getting better and better. This app will get better with each update and cameras keep getting better with each year passing. I remember when .3 megapixels was good. Now 8-14 megapixel cameras are the norm.

My phone has a 3D Camera and takes 3D Movies....and
what's more...no glasses required....(except beverage glasses of course...)

ScratchPad is a pretty cool app, and has a lot of nice content.  I put it on my wife's iPad (well, it is both of ours but I never get it when she's home) and it is plenty of fun, if you like the looping thing.
 
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mobility is awesome... I can capture spontaneous raps/song ideas anytime...I can't begin to remember ideas I had in an earlier time... and, Bit... as to your point on crappy cameras?? Nokia's new camera's in their phones are frackin' amazing... (almost makes me wanna dump android... oh it hurts...)
 
However, ccleary,  I agree... hope Cake doesn't go the way of IK...who all but abandoned us loyal customers for some quick crappy bucks on itoys... (although, irig is pretty cool...WHERE'S my G-Rig, IKobe???? Don't do the applesauce!)  as for at least the next 5 to 7 years, mobile won't power the creative tools I'm lovin' and our amazing small companies (uhe, camel, oh the list is sooooo long) are creatin'.
 
However, Android tablet links to X3????? Oh, YEA!!! gimme some o dat!!! Deap integration/cross linking would be truely wonderful...a couple nexus 7s & 10s on the desk, doin' different things, wifi netted to be spread around the room.... Oh, yea....

I get the mobility thing and I am sure it works for a lot of people. I travel a lot and years ago bought a Yamaha QY10 thinking it would let me work on ideas on the move, in reality it was a lot of fun but found more utility in a pen and pad of manuscript paper. the QY10 died long ago, when I start to think about getting a tablet to use on the move I remember my experience with my QY10 and keep the cash for something else. And the QY10 had a big advantage (IMHO of course, I know "youngsters" can work touch efficiently) - Tactile buttons, not a touch screen.
 
I can see how electronic miniaturization and improvements in processor technology and memory will mean at some stage in the future a mobile device will have the power to do what can be done on a PC today, but it will still need a docking station and external keyboard and screen for ergonomic use when not mobile.
 
Cameras in phones are another issue. The lens is the most important item in determining the quality and you are not going to be able to have a high quality lens in a phone due to size limitations. Samsung makes/made a compact camera that is also a phone to try to overcome these limitations. Megapixels are only a small part of the story, the size of the sensor is more important, and by definition camera phones will only have a small sensor. Sensor technology will improve, which means the big sensors will get better as well as the small ones and the gap will not be closed. If you want snapshots for family memories, selfies to post on Twitface, or capture an unexpected event the convenience of a camera in a phone is obvious, but for landscapes and portraits colour me very sceptical.
 
 

I guit a mobile device for making music:
 

 
 
 
This young fella has got one of them portable synthesizers:
 

 
 

This is my new mobile scetch pad for music (I do not kid)
http://www.moleskine.com/en/collections/model/product/music-notebook-pocket
 
And I use it with this rather intuitive input method:
http://www.pilotpen.us/ProductGroup/74-Varsity.aspx
 
Seriously, I sit in the tram or in a cafe, humming to my self and writing it down in this. In the past three months, I've made more music I have used on this than I have on my iPad and iPhone.
 
I love taking a step away from technology
 
 
 
Come to think of it - I'm probably TOS violating big time here....

I am finding that I am using my iPhone and IPad more to assist me with song writing. I tried carrying around a note pad for a while to quickly jot things down, but I found that when I needed it, I didn't have it with me. It seems like most of the phrases or lyrics that I use in my songs come to me when I am not really expecting them. Convenience is king, and having the ability to quickly voice record a sentence or phrase in the voice recorder or the notes section has saved many quick phrases that I would have normally lost before I could get to a scratch pad.

I am finding that I am using more of the song writing apps as well and the near rhyming apps in particular for assistance. I don't see more tools in the tool box as a problem and I have started to look for ways to use new technology to assist me in what I already do.

As far as cameras, I still love and use my DSLR Nikons. However, my iPhone has saved my butt on the occasion that I am not lugging the Nikon with me. I have been known to use both while shooting as well. I often slip in a shot with the iPhone while shooting with the Nikon. Sometimes it even comes out better. I guess I never had any issues with clinging to old technology or old cars.