The version of GarageBand under iOS 8.1 bears as much resemblance to the desktop version of GarageBand as a penny whistle bears to a symphony orchestra. I saw no evidence of samples, loops, etc although there is a simple drum track editor in it. I played with it for a while and arrived quickly at the conclusion: you can't be farking serious.
After playing with it for about thirty minutes, I went back to what the iPad does best ... playing Harbor Master, a game to dock ships without crashing them into each other. This may go some distance to explaining why most of the time the iPad is turned off.
Apple's headlong rush to transfer software to the iPad ignores the biggest problem with these tinkertoy devices: there isn't anything that approaches a sensible and reliable way to control them. Apple is now up to four-finger gestures for device control. In other words, doing something with one finger has a particular function, two fingers have a different one, and so on.
As to the gestures, I find the device can be controlled the best with a three finger gesture (i.e. one raised and two lowered) such that the raised finger can be used to the device off.
It won't be too much longer before Lather is waving his arms in the air again only now Apple will say they know what he is saying. Of course they do.
The general situation now after Yosemite and iOS 8.1 is that the desktop machine sucks as a telephone, the iPad sucks as a desktop machine, and both are getting more and more lost to their actual purposes. There is a total absence of design except insofar as they must look the same. Using that logic, just paint all the rooms white as painters do when selling a house. That won't hold the walls up after you buy it but it does look ok, doesn't it.
After playing with it for about thirty minutes, I went back to what the iPad does best ... playing Harbor Master, a game to dock ships without crashing them into each other. This may go some distance to explaining why most of the time the iPad is turned off.
Apple's headlong rush to transfer software to the iPad ignores the biggest problem with these tinkertoy devices: there isn't anything that approaches a sensible and reliable way to control them. Apple is now up to four-finger gestures for device control. In other words, doing something with one finger has a particular function, two fingers have a different one, and so on.
As to the gestures, I find the device can be controlled the best with a three finger gesture (i.e. one raised and two lowered) such that the raised finger can be used to the device off.
It won't be too much longer before Lather is waving his arms in the air again only now Apple will say they know what he is saying. Of course they do.
The general situation now after Yosemite and iOS 8.1 is that the desktop machine sucks as a telephone, the iPad sucks as a desktop machine, and both are getting more and more lost to their actual purposes. There is a total absence of design except insofar as they must look the same. Using that logic, just paint all the rooms white as painters do when selling a house. That won't hold the walls up after you buy it but it does look ok, doesn't it.
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