Not long ago there were elections in Germany, maybe Steinberg entered the government party and soon cubase take over music world and give free Ipad for their users to join them.
Yamy/Steiny have achieved exactly what they wanted from their announcement;
that being many people in many places talking/posting/speculating about the announcement.
‘Future Product Marketing 101’………. ‘Talk it up’.
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Android is gaining a larger market share simply because of all the cheap low-cost smartphones being pushed out to market. Makes for good bragging points for a Google & Samsung, but developers like Steinberg got to look at the bottom line… And data clearly shows the majority of people actually spending money on apps are on iOS. Developers go where the money is. Period.
I haven’t seen that data, but let’s say its true: Android still has the majority of total users! Atleast in Europe.
And most developers do both iOS and Android…
PS.
What’s wrong with low-cost smartphones? Not everybody wants/needs to have quad CPUs and 4 GB of memory for their phone. People mostly do calling, SMSing, Facebooking and browsing. And play simple games.
I am hoping this is a touch UX with the Cubase 7 engine running on Windows 8.1 (Intel) . Although there are lots of android devices, I would think it would take a long time for an android version to catch up to Cubase 7 . Why not just use the Cubase 7 engine on x86 with a new touch UI ?
Also I think , Android has problems with low latency. I’m not knocking it, I have a Nexus 7
According to this link its a muddled picture but it looks like the most downloaded apps are Android whereas Apple still makes more money from apps. This could be just being entrenched and charging more for the apps plus forcing more in app purchases to get the functionality originally perceived.
Anyway I’m a PC and IPad user. I think developers would be foolish not to exploit the Android market as Apple continues its over priced/under spec’d policy. I really like my IPad but things like no usb is just a sad joke.
we’ll I hope it is , it’s always nice to have options but one thing for sure if this just turns out to be touchscreen Icrap stuff then there will be no upgrading or updating from me from now on , my wallet will be tightly closed as sonically I have everything I need .
Maybe it will be something similar to Apple’s new " Coordinated group musical experience " , US Patent 8,521,316 .
It was applied for in March 2010 and was awarded in August 2013 .
It sends the master tempo to each individual dancer at a silent disco 's smartphone or mp3 player , and selects a track from each individual’s library that matches the master track the closest . Everyone dances away to their own music with headphones on , but the whole crowd is in time .
… and for dinosaurs like me who had never heard of the Silent Disco phenomenon , there is even a Wiki page on it ;
I wouldn’t say that I hate Apple. It’s rather some sort of not being bothered with their stuff, like I’m not bothered with stuff by many other companies that I actually don’t hate.
Anyway, I don’t own iStuff and I’m surely not going to buy it only for running Steinberg apps.
Except for the fact that I have political reasons (freedom of speech, full ownership of my own devices, anti - censorship, fixed battery, etc…) not to buy i*.*.
It have to be portable dongle-audio interface. Cubase on ios that is. Wont change anything. But they dont have to pay apple that mush since the “cost” is for the hardware.
That sounds exactly like me in 1972 with my ‘Arp Odessey’.
On stage at the ‘Gasworks’ in Toronto (‘Rush’ had just played there the week before)
using the sub oscillator to make the entire building shake.