Android

Android operating system is the most used in the world yet is very limited on the music applications. The amount of applications available in the Mac and IPhone world are incredible. Yet Apple still has a strong hold on the majority of music applications, partially due to the OS of the Androids. An IPhone has the ability to devote all its processing power to one specific app. In production terms it helps latency and quality. The Android platform only allows a portion of the processing power for an app. I personally checked the Play store for music applications the list is long and growing yet if you read any of the reviews latency and quality problems are littered throughout. Some of the negative comments are people trying to use a phone as a DAW. Seriously? What are they thinking? I downloaded Caustic for the android and it's pretty cool. I wouldn't seriously try to mix and master on it but to get a inspiring beat or synth a loop, no problem. In the convergence of technology, the ability to do everything on every device is a bit of a downfall. A smart phone or tablet only has so much processing power and memory. You could almost call a smart device an instrument creating a tone or loop of some sort. Will this be the way of the future? The sugar packet society wanting everything instantaneously stimulates growth in technology. So what is next? A hand held device that records and writes directly to cd?