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Posted by doc on 04/06/06 21:59
i too am in the audio recording business and when we initially purchased our
G5's and set up our digidesign studio with pro tools we went for training.
at training there were two dozen of us in that went to two different cities
and met a total of 11 different trainers in radio and tv. of those i
surveyed, only one had an apple/mac solution at home and 6 agreed that the
only reason their studio used apple/macs was because the decision wasn't
made by the engineers but by some paper pushing manager. moreover, they all
wished that their companies had either gone stienberg or some other
solution.
i wished i had made the move that week, because we could have returned all
our equipment (not software though) and gotten more pc power for the same
money we put in the g5's. it took us a year to wake up and learn that we
were paying a fortune for help, equipment, and software solutions, that we
could get for a song or FREE in the pc side market. we did good in the end
however, finding a low budget tv studio who would opt for used equipment and
thus got enough out of our used gear to get a nicely outfited 24 channel
Motu interfaces (896's that were designed for mac's :o) and steinberg's top
shelf applications, along with some nice additional software options for
authoring and tweaking.
we are sooooooo pleased that the apple/mac's are out of here! we can now
outfit and solve our own pc solutions.
drd
"Specs" <No.Spam@Thanks.com> wrote in message
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> "Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote in message
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>> "Specs"wrote ...
>> > I don't think the 90/10 split follows for the creative
>> > industry. Macs dominate Audio and publishing fields.
>>
>> That is the popular myth. But you wouldn't get any support
>> from the people over on the audio newsgroups. Besides,
>> what difference does it make?
>>
>
> It doesn't make any difference whatsoever. I was giving you the benefit
> of
> my experience. I have _never_ seen a PC in a recording studio. I have
> visited hundreds in my time. I have lots of personal friends in the music
> business in the UK and have yet to see anything other than a Mac.
> Similarly
> I have seen the majority of print publishing firms still using Macs. Ad
> Agencies too invariably use Macs in _MY_ experience.
>
> Perhaps the people frequent the audio newsgroups are indicative of another
> sector i.e. the hobbyist that likes to spend time impressing each other
> how
> "pro" they are. Ring any bells Richard? My "real world" experience is to
> the contrary.
>
>> I was being generous. It is more like 95 vs. 5.
>>
>> > Without OS X who would Microsoft get their ideas from?
>> > The 90% PC market might just need OS X more than they know.
>>
>> You are really a master of the popular myth, aren't you?
>> Perhaps you should look up the Palo Alto Research Center
>> (Xerox) if you want to know where most of the windowing
>> and mouse-related user interface ideas were developed.
>> (Back when Jobs and Wozniak were fooling around in their
>> garage.)
>>
>
> I am perfectly aware of the history of the mouse based gui. So where is
> the
> Xerox GUI now? Surely nobody can deny that Apple developed it and
> popularised it along with Commodore. M$ has always been playing catchup
> to
> someone or other.
>
> Vista bears little or no resemblance to OS X does it?
>
>> > Microsoft does appear to be having its fair share of problems with
>> > Vista at
>> > the moment which could open the door for Apple.
>> > http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2006/03/vista-2007-fire-leadership-now.html
>>
>> It has never worked for Apple before, but I guess you
>> still have hope! :-)
>>
>
> Anyone who believes in a free market should hope OS X and for that matter
> Linux continue to develop their market share because a M$ hegemony is not
> good for anyone. Its clearly not good for M$.
>
> For the record I have never owned anything by Apple not even an iPod. I
> am
> not an Apple fanboy quite the reverse actually. Credit where credit is
> due
> was the point I was making. :-)
>
>
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