This is a really good question from Synthtopia. It deserves some serious attention. The Google + Arduino combination is great in so many ways, not just for music, but for tinkerers of all kinds.
Whilst I've heard a number of sites saying that this 'the death of made for iPod', and who knows, maybe it will be eventually, but at the moment it is way to early to tell.
Whilst I'd like Apple to open up a bit more I doubt that we'll ever see them doing anything like this.
This is certainly going to a really interesting area to watch over the coming weeks. Let's see what comes.
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ähm, i dont want to program stuff, i want to make music!
I want to program, hack and do what the hell i want with my hardware.
That being said. You cant kill coremidi. The revolution has already begun.
Short answer: no.
Long answer: nope.
I honestly don't see Android as much competition for iOS. It only seems that way to journalists and bloggers who think there's a story there.
The iOS API attracts developers because it gives them what they want. If the apps on Android can't compete, that's why.
This is really just a serial to USB bridge(FTDI)in hardware, and Android API hooks into serial. Serial's an OLD protocol, nothing new here...
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8772
I don't really see Android or Arduino effecting people who buy apps for devices to make music with. ...Maybe hackers, but they could've been hacking arduinos already anyway.
Interesting if you want to make a robot band (robots who play instruments). I think it is a nice like OSC to use the iphone to control Ableton so you can put whateaver controls you want on the Android surface to control the Aruino.
It is a lot more flexable but you could do the same type of thing with a Playstation controler.
Would be great to interface a processing app on Android with a knob on an arduino. Coremidi is great but harder to learn and you couldn't make your own controller, would have to comply with apples device regulations (big cost)
does anyone remember the what was its name again, the "ipod killer" zune?!
Man, I'm so tired of this recent thing with bloggers and reporters asking the question "Is this so-and-so going to KILL iOS?" or whatever...
Of course such a thing does happen sometimes. VHS "killed" BetaMax. Why? Because VHS was more profitable.
So I suppose if all of a sudden developers start to make more money on Android than they do on iOS the question would be valid. But since iOS reaps over half the profits of everybody else, my bet is still on iOS not dying anytime soon.
Has Sonic killed Nintendo? Sonic was fun and sold a lot, but Mario is still alive.
I feel the Arduino/Android couple will be pretty popular when it comes to integrating software and hardware for stuff like home automation, robots, and probably music too. In this area Android is a step further than IOS, but when it comes to music apps IOS is still king.
When Google fixes latency on Android, which is just a matter of time, then we can expect Android music to really lift off, and maybe it will hinder IOS in the process, but never enough for Apple to call it quits.
Just like Nintendo never called it quits even when the world was saying they were dead.
@s e simula
"VHS "killed" BetaMax. Why? Because VHS was more profitable."
Funny story : do you know why VHS was more profitable? ... because if you wanted to use Beta you needed to pay royalties to Sony, since VHS was an open format anyone could produce it without paying licenses to anyone, so eventually it took over Beta.
I'm not saying IOS will die, but it might end up like Beta which was used by professionals for many years even after it was abandonned as a consumer format.
seems like apples and oranges to me. I like android and all, but what does hacking away at arduino have to do with apps like nanostudio?
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