The Logic Off Topic list

>It seems to me that APple are making a move to become a second Microsoft :).
>They seem to be heading toward offering an OS that contains all the
>'multimedia' tools you might ever need (at least light versions of them...).
>Thing about iMovie/Final Cut Pro, the Cd burning programs etc. Now we are
>going to have a situation where Apple will be offering a basic sequencer
>package (my bet is on iTrack as the name) and then a super duper version
>which is equivalent to Logic Audio Platinum.
>
>Am I just paranoid or what do ye think?
>Do you think this is a 'Good Thing(tm)' or not?

I think Apple is doing what they have to do to keep going.

look at Quicktime - a great wrapper for multimedia - cross platform 
etc - can't make headway in the pc world because MS comes up with its 
own competing formats.

then look at the once "big" Apple apps - various Adobe, Digidesign, 
Avid and so forth all migrating to pc in the post windows world... 
worse than that:  many of these apps develop and release for pc 
_first_.

I think that Apple did the right thing in purchasing Astarte, Final 
Cut, Sound Jam etc and bringing them into the fold. All of these are 
getting regular development at Apple and not being relegated to some 
back corner of a big pc software house.

I think Emagic was in trouble so this is good for both companies.

That said the future looks cloudy for Logic pc users - and that is not good.