But what's the reasoning behind the decision? You could just assume that they want more revenue from this app by making it universal. That could be true. Certainly it has done really well on the iPad and so why not on the iPhone and the Touch.
But I think there's more to it than that. I still cling on to the hope that Apple is really passionate about content creation on the device. Whether that's music or photos or video or anything else for that matter. It's also consistent with what they've done with iMovie, and the iWork suite of apps.
I still hope that one day we'll see a Logic app from Apple for the iPad, but maybe that's a way off.
For now I'm glad that Apple have made GarageBand universal and that we haven't had the same reaction as when it first came out and lots of people said it would kill off indie developers. I don't think it will, and I don't think that was ever the intention.
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i'm hoping that apple will allow the camera connection kit to work with the iphone now. i love using a usb midi keyboard with my ipad garageband and it would be even more useful with the tiny iphone. that's just my wishful thinking for ios 5.1
They have a section now in the itunes app store that deals with music making. I hadn't seen that before-
I agree with my namesake. I’d really like to see the Camera Connection Kit working with iPods and iPhones.
I think that they want to extend all of thier desktop ilife apps to the idevices and cloud.
By bringing intergration across desktop and idevices they make you want to be an all apple house.
Yeah, as a gateway drug for the Macbook, and to make the iPhone more valuable. It's a great app to show what's possible. Other developers should be happy imo, as they should have been when it launched for iPad. Apple evangelizing iOS as music creation platform makes users aware. They will search for more apps!
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