You're saying that this card would cost a whole lot of money and possibly produce no returns. That's possibly true, but only until it becomes a standard - made an integral part of a high end computer. It doesn't seem totally impossible to my mind. Some years ago it wasn't even standard for computers to come with a sound card at all, for example. As soon as they show up, more applications came to fill this increased multimedia potential in computers, not only that but the OS themselves have grown more mature with that move. So I think that, naturally, only big companies could pull this off, like Apple which I mentioned above. They can make the whole world use touch phones, why couldn't they do something like this? And sell the products for their all to special Logic X (more like XI) in their dearest App Store, making everyone make some bucks. I think this open card doesn't mean there can't be competition and profit, that's only relegated to software perhaps. But making such a thing become as ordinary as RAM memory or the graphics card would be great. It could also, I think, serve the gaming industry. We don't often talk about that, but rendering real audio in games in real time still has a long way to go to, there's room for improvement. And the games have proven useful for pushing the industry into greater innovation and for financing it even. Just a thought of course.
But no one would deny this would be useful for the pro user. I mean, the new mac pro they're about to sell looks like a turbine from a space ship, has all the looks and specs of a great machine, except... well, you really need to buy a decent sound card, an Universal Audio card to, maybe an Apogee Rosetta pcie (if you're running a bit shinny biz), so forth and so on. So, let me think it through here... Mac what? Pro? Reaaallyyy? Just an ordinary computer with nothing more then your laptop on it, except more of the same (literaly). If this is what the market economy has to offer us, then I say that innovation is being halted more then helped by it, that's all.
And if we're honest, that's happening every single day. Have you seen an Imac on the inside? They could easily made them more resistant and better constructed but what's the point in making a great product that would last forever? No point! Except, of course, the user. This is were we're at at this point in evolution, but it makes me sick. I like to think that more resources for computing within a computer so as to enable creativity is worth it, simply that. What the economy needs to pull it off is really not the point. I mean, it's done a lousy job at making people keep their jobs in my country, it's out sourcing our most successful stuff to the third world bypassing all sorts of laws that give people their rights, including care for the environment, children in factories, so forth and so on... Screw the economy, we're talking evolution here. We just need to stop pretending that Mac Pros really live up to their name, because they don't.
