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Originally Posted by Stiff  A question to those who think Digidesign is behind their times, Pro Tools outdated, and feel Logic and Apple is taking over: Do you think it's wise to bring in an ex-digi employee, and former general manager at that?  |
Apple's assembling a dream team of management in many areas. They just nabbed two AMD/ATI graphic vets (Drebin, Koduri) and now they appear to be adding top level talent in their pro apps division.
I think Apple is a lot more serious about this verticle than people give them credit for. Apple's already had their shakeup two years ago. They decided that it was finally time to move to Intel only and eliminate legacy frameworks.
Everything that many complain about (lack of features or instability) can be directly attributed to Apple trying to juggle too many redundant elements.
As for Digi they will be fine but the death knell for DSP systems has been sounding for some time now. We have 8-core systems today. In two years we'll have 16 -core workstations with 32 threads. Each core will be 4Ghz and have access to very fast main RAM.
The writing has been on the wall. Native systems will take the mantle before 2015 and won't look back. Apple will show what they can do when the next Logic Studio and Final Cut Studio show up in 64-bit and support Grand Central Dispatch in Snow Leopard.