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Apple Buys Emagic

Posted by pudge on from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept.

sapporo writes "Apple has apparently bought Emagic, developers of Audio Logic, music production software used by 200,000 people worldwide. Emagic will operate as a wholly owned division of Apple, and the Windows versions of their software will be discontinued on September 30, 2002. Whoa!"

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  1. Spending spree by zaren · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While I don't exactly approve of this "buy software and then kill the Windows branch" stragety, it's interesting to see it happening. As a shareholder, I'm curious to see if all these purchases are truly being made to improve Apple software, or just to limit Windows users access to such software.
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  2. Re:Great for Linux by feldsteins · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While that is a valid point, it's equally valid to point out that if the open source community was willing and able to create an audio application that could sucessfully compete with the commercial big boys they haven't done so yet.

    Please do not flame me with two dozen sourceforge URLs pointing to unknown or half-finished projects. The key descriptor here being that can sucessfully compete with the commercial big boys. And do please remember that I'm not saying it can't be done...only that it hasn't yet.

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