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On Apr 20, 2006, at 4:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Something else: Will Apple support stereo under X11 at some point?
The official answer (Apple's) is that they are working on getting
the issue resolved right now. I made a very strong note about that in
our Apple Intel transition survey report ("What does it all mean?"
section, on MacResearch.org) since this has been a sore spot for me
since the moment a demo system got in my hands (around the product
announcement time).
Beyond the official Apple answer I'm not allowed to say more
regarding what the actual issues are (they are complicated, but as I
noted in the survey report, this should have been caught before the
product shipped). But they are definitely working on it and will
release a fix. So to answer your question, they will be supporting it.
Regards,
Dave
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Dial boxes: I wish someone would build & sell a USB dial box. It's so
<CENSORED> obvious. The technology is very simple: 8 rotary optical
counters in a box with a USB microprocessor. Design it well and you
wouldn't even need a separate power cord, you could power it off
the USB
bus. The biggest impediment is probably the small market.
We actually looked into building and designing our own before I
wrote
the library to interface current dials boxes with OS X based systems.
The end result after speaking with people at Apple (not that they
were
going to build it, one of the evangelists was just discussing
implementation details) and a few peripheral companies was that it
isn't
worth it (although everyone I spoke with say the value in it). The
estimates were that at least 100,000 units needed to be sold for
it to be
justifiable given the price point people would want. I don't think
there
is that type of market demand.
