Devices Do Get Obsolete

Since this tec resources class has started, I've had chaces to get to know many softwares that are new to me. Although I usually feel more confortable with windows machine because I'm used to using it, I sometimes wish if I had a mac computer also... For us customers, softwares and systems bein available in any kinds of machines is desireble. But may be for those who are selling machines, exclusivity to some extent is the key to attract customers. Finding the balance is very difficult and in fact, due to the constant development of technology, no one can tell the new idea is going to last long or not for sure.

Two month ago, I had a chance to help my friend apply to an audition in Japan. To my surprise, they still required the applicants to submit their music file in the form of Mini Disc for pre-screening. It is true that MD was more proliferate in Japan than in the U.S. and I used to use it a lot when I was a high school student. At that time, I thought it was a great devise because it is smaller than portable cassette/ CD players and very easy to record things. But soon after, the MP3 recorder/player came out and MD players were replaced by them. In fact, MD players in the latter days were upgraded so that it transmit MP3 files but that made things confusing for us because there were no ways to convert the files recorded with the older version, but to do analogue recording.     

With this traumatic experience in my mind, I kind of keep refraining from switching to mac computer, although I knew it is better than windows if I wanted to use it for designing and music editing. Since Apple is creating their own soft, hard disks, and even batteries for their devices, I've been worried about what if Apple became minor among other cocmputer makers, which now I think was a wrong idea.

However, even now, Apple has a conflict with Adobe and that will limit the possibility of Mac computer to some extent, like iPad not having a flash player. One thing I'm begining to think is; since computers are more proliferate than it used to, I may have to stop thinking of purchasing comuter as a huge investiment but rather a casual shopping. Then, I just have to buy another one if the one I have get obsolete.