Asteroid a Hoax?

Umm, Anne Onymus's posts on LowEndMac are satirical.

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@ #5.
If you dont like it, dont read it, and dont ruin the comments for everyone else. Let them have their opinion. Last time i checked, you dont run Weblog's Inc, and if you have better work to post, go make you own site. Good Luck with that. No one wants to hear you complain about this. You just add fuel to the fire with this "Steve is a martian" bull.

Good Day Sir.

Contrary to what the entry says and what the EFF and other supporters of the leakers of Apple trade secrets would have you belive, the Californai Sixth District Court of Appeals *did not* rule that online journalists have all the rights and protections of traditional journalists. No amount of 'spin' by the EFF or other so-called 'journalists' will change that.

It's always a good idea to read the ruling for yourself and understand it, rather than repeating the same nonsense over and over.

As for Anne Onymus, what she's suggesting is that Apple is somehow obligated to actually introduce a product that is under development. Looks like she's been watching a few too many X-Files episodes.

Are there actually people with brains so small as to believe this drivel??

Apple, like any other company, frequently develops products to pre-production stage before pulling the plug. Jobs has acknowledged this on many occasions particularly with respect to new handheld products. Really folks, the TUAW postings need to have more merit than this. What next: Steve is actually a Martian sent here to take over the planet?

Regular Low End Mac reader here, Anne Onymous is mostly in jest. Kind of like the other non-non-fiction column they have there which is very noticeably surreal: The Lite Side.

Having read Revolution in the Valley though, sometimes you think twice...

Technically, M-Audio's iControl is not an exclusive GarageBand product, since it also works with Logic. Especially if you're going to put it in all caps. The original Asteroid rumors have very little in common with iControl anyway, being an audio interface and not a control surface.

The Apogee Ensemble is very interesting to pro users, who are waiting for it to ship right now. It's been pushed back at least once since its announcement. The current word is that Apple's native CoreAudio support is having problems with dropouts and stability (evidenced in Mackie's Onyx 400F interface problems in OS X), which may also be why Asteroid has not seen the light either.

Just read some of this person's predictions in the past to see that they aren't to be taken seriously (I can't quite tell if it's completely a parody or not, but it might as well be).

Well there's always the M-Audio iControl, EXCLUSIVELY for Garageband.

And Apple collarborated with Apogee on the Ensemble.