in the old days it was because of what was written predominantly for what system
ST had MIDI built in Amiga did not so ST's have the largest 16bit MIDI market by default
Mac's were alwasy sold as DTP graphic artist etc work
afaik Adobe started there and eventually migrated when pc's started to get better GFX wise
now you can get hard/software to get your pc to do nigh on anything and mac's get labled 'niche elitist machines' more than they used to 10 years ago
the first ipods were mac only till they realised that although the market was saturated on windows compatible mp3 players they could still shift bucket loads more to wintell users than native apple
i have a 'classic' 160gb ipod
not cos its apple or an ipod
cos its 160gb
sony and other big names make flash based lcd players offering upto 16gb for not that much less
guess where my thinking led me
(i originally coveted the 60gb creative DAB many years ago but never got round to buying one)
I have issues with it
you cant drag and drop like normal usb players
it has to be sync'd and leaves files with random names in random folders
if i were to sync it on another itunes installed pc it would wipe my drive clear of all songs not on that system
but im guessing both of thoes two bugbears are actually some alternate DRM-esque technique
but on a plus side i can use it like any other HDD and i dump my cd quality wav's from my H4 digital 4 track into a folder and i can copy them at a later date to any pc instead of carting around some cdr's or the SD's
and i filled it with pics of pussy ... a comment that ewed some girls at work till i showed em my brothers 2 cats (and 2 dogs) and my festival pics so i can show people on the move instead of telling em about my in vast need of uploading flickr site
ST had MIDI built in Amiga did not so ST's have the largest 16bit MIDI market by default
Mac's were alwasy sold as DTP graphic artist etc work
afaik Adobe started there and eventually migrated when pc's started to get better GFX wise
now you can get hard/software to get your pc to do nigh on anything and mac's get labled 'niche elitist machines' more than they used to 10 years ago
the first ipods were mac only till they realised that although the market was saturated on windows compatible mp3 players they could still shift bucket loads more to wintell users than native apple
i have a 'classic' 160gb ipod
not cos its apple or an ipod
cos its 160gb
sony and other big names make flash based lcd players offering upto 16gb for not that much less
guess where my thinking led me
(i originally coveted the 60gb creative DAB many years ago but never got round to buying one)
I have issues with it
you cant drag and drop like normal usb players
it has to be sync'd and leaves files with random names in random folders
if i were to sync it on another itunes installed pc it would wipe my drive clear of all songs not on that system
but im guessing both of thoes two bugbears are actually some alternate DRM-esque technique
but on a plus side i can use it like any other HDD and i dump my cd quality wav's from my H4 digital 4 track into a folder and i can copy them at a later date to any pc instead of carting around some cdr's or the SD's
and i filled it with pics of pussy ... a comment that ewed some girls at work till i showed em my brothers 2 cats (and 2 dogs) and my festival pics so i can show people on the move instead of telling em about my in vast need of uploading flickr site