Why is there so little love for musicians with Android gear?
Why is there so little love for musicians with Android gear?
Is there any technical reason why so many apps are iOS exclusive? Is there no money in Android versions? I'd love to get stuff like the Lemur app and Touchable for my Galaxy Tab. Has the iPad become the "serious" platform for musicians, like the Mac?
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My guess would be it's a combination of how easy Apple makes it for devs to get into iOS development with Xcode and that there may be more issues with piracy on Android, although that's speculation. You pretty much have to jailbreak an iOS device to use any kind of app not downloaded through the App Store. How easy is it for Android users to simply copy over existing apps without buying them?
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But it very well could just be a remnant of the dominance of Apple hardware in the professional computer music world.
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Beat making apps seem to be to laggy. this maybe something to do with android and how it handles audio.
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i just hum and/or beat box with a voice recorder. then i work the details out later.
although, i don't produce music for a living, so what do i know?
although, i don't produce music for a living, so what do i know?
Re: Why is there so little love for musicians with Android gear?
a lot of this ^stringtapper wrote:My guess would be it's a combination of how easy Apple makes it for devs to get into iOS development with Xcode and that there may be more issues with piracy on Android, although that's speculation. You pretty much have to jailbreak an iOS device to use any kind of app not downloaded through the App Store. How easy is it for Android users to simply copy over existing apps without buying them?
too many processor types, configurations and variables in Android land and the lawlessness of being without the App store and confines of Apple... in some ways that's great, in others... not so much.
i've seen a few more more recognizable ones porting over though. Cubase and Fruity Loops have started going in that direction, for example. both started out on iOS. i'm sure many more will follow as things stabilize and a certain bar is set as far as specs and such go.
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Android has too much latency to start. It was not designed for audio.
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Does android even have midi built in??
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All I know is there's stuff iPad & iPhone apps have been doing for quite a few years now that other devices aren't even close to touching. I'm only recently jumping on the iOS boat and it's pretty astounding what some of these apps can do. When it comes to creative apps in particular (music, photography, design), iOS apps are way ahead of the competition.
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Android isn't a sustainable platform. No point in developing for it.
Total Android revenue: $550 million
Total iPhone revenue (excluding software sales): $150 billion
Total Android revenue: $550 million
Total iPhone revenue (excluding software sales): $150 billion
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Re: Why is there so little love for musicians with Android gear?
It is not as bad as you might think. The music apps on Android are constantly evolving and for all usage scenarios there is now a capable app:
- Audio recording:
- Audio Evolution Mobile DAW https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... bile&hl=de
- Sequencer Music Studio:
- Remote DAW Control
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Re: Why is there so little love for musicians with Android gear?
^^Thislogin wrote:Android has too much latency to start. It was not designed for audio.
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As an iOS developer, it's much more the technical problems than any business side. Ideally, we'd develop and sell on all platforms, but with very limited time and resources we're going to use the platform with the least MIDI latency problems, with Apple's basic, but reasonably effective copy protection, with a clean and clear number of device configurations to support. Also, Apple was first (well, never really, but you know what I mean) with a lot of things and so you prefer to stay in a development environment you know and build on your invested time...
Re: Why is there so little love for musicians with Android gear?
Latency + infinite hardware/software configs + demonstrated unwillingness (as compared to iOS) of users to actually pay real monies for something.
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