An added footnote about the dream...

If it turns out to be a reality...I will BAN and remove all my Cakewalk products...

It's almost like one of those glorified "As seen on TV" ads. with a higher price tag......
 

Are you sure this isn't how you're supposed to get your music you just made on your iphone, out of said iphone? - i can see how this could work - the music travels down the multi-purpose iCable until it meets the iDock / iCup rest - then travels through the various layers of iInsulation until it reaches the bottom of the filled iTea / iCoffee Cup  - here your world class music makes vibrations in the iTea / iCoffee which you then capture using one of those Old Fashioned, oh so last century  microphone things.
 
Clever.....................
 

I doubt cake are working on Icrap. Sonor doesn't even support Mac. Once again stop worrying!! 

Is it just me, or has anybody else noticed how awful iOS and Android apps really are?
 
I'm talking poorly designed, clumsy UIs, frequent hangs and general bugginess. Sheesh, even if it only sells for 99 cents, I'd just be embarrassed to release the kind of amateurish apps I've seen so far.
 
I will admit that I've not looked at any super-high-end software packages that sell for, like, 10 bucks.

bitflipper
Is it just me, or has anybody else noticed how awful iOS and Android apps really are?
 
I'm talking poorly designed, clumsy UIs, frequent hangs and general bugginess. Sheesh, even if it only sells for 99 cents, I'd just be embarrassed to release the kind of amateurish apps I've seen so far.
 
I will admit that I've not looked at any super-high-end software packages that sell for, like, 10 bucks.

Many of IK's iCraps sell for about $10 bones normally....
 
I've tried a lot of different Android apps....I've got an LG Thrill 3D phone...YES 3D....it takes 3D video and Pics...
Even the menu system is 3D...

But I sure wouldn't want to do anything of any importance on it (sound wise)...nope...but the Video and Pics are awesome 
I have to say...that's probably why it was discontinued...
And I'm running Android 4....

I'm using an Android phone, and for the most part it's just a phone. But after my back surgery I embarked on a weight loss regimen and figured that one of the many calorie-counter apps would be a convenient aid. I tried three of them, settled on the least-objectionable one and have been using it daily for 5 weeks now. (1400 calories per day + exercise -- f*ck me, I'm so frickin' hungry)
 
A simple database app should be a piece o' cake, but this app is awful. Every day I enter my exercise, and it doesn't remember what I put in yesterday. I have to choose my type of exercise from a scrolling list that defaults to "badminton". Badminton? I'd have designed it to default to whatever I'd put in yesterday. My elliptical exercise machine tells me how many calories I've burned but the app forces me to choose something from the menu and adjust the duration until the number of calories is close. Similarly, if I eat a 90-calorie yogurt cup, there is no way to enter "Yogurt, 90 calories". I have to choose from a brand name and adjust the quantity until the number of calories is close to 90. Quantities can only be halved or doubled, resulting in ridiculous entries such as "24 peanuts". And on and on.
 
Android and iPhone apps remind me of the kind of software we used to get for our Apple ][s for free or cheap way back when. Back then we were thrilled just to store telephone numbers on a computer. But that was 30 years ago. We should have made some progress.

I never really worked out why you need an app for something you can do in the web browser. About the only apps I use on my Blackberry are the calculator and note pad.

bitflipper
 
 
Android and iPhone apps remind me of the kind of software we used to get for our Apple ][s for free or cheap way back when. Back then we were thrilled just to store telephone numbers on a computer. But that was 30 years ago. We should have made some progress.

Bit, you sure would think so...I guess doing the same rudimentary thing on a smaller device is considered "Progress"

I am reading this forum on an iPad...... Resistance is futile.

Seriously, my company gave me an iPad. I have been using it for two weeks it's actually pretty nice. Five dollars got a very nice wireless remote control surface. Another five dollars got a very interesting midi controller called sound prism. IK multimedia amplitube is kind of cool..... But every time you want to do something you press a button and you have to buy another in-house app For 2.99. (Got the irig thingy very cheap at Best Buy where I see they're closing down their music stores.)

Perhaps because the iPad has been around a little longer than android, The iOS apps seem to be a lot more stable and functional. Even though that's what I hate about Apple it seems to be working in the case of apps.

Kind of cool to find out people have built programs that take wireless MIDI data from Apple product and make it usable on a PC.

"Hey you kids get offa da lawn..."


JR