Android DVS (Digital Vinyl System) USB Audio Case Study.State of Android USB Digital Audio Support.Will Android users remain muted? Contents Will the next billionbillions of Android users not get access to these technologies? Speaking of billions, will Google stop leaving billions on the table by not equipping Android devices with the core music and audio technologies that are part and parcel of iOS? Markets that would materialize instantaneously on Android.Īll because Android doesn’t handle USB audio and MIDI well. Markets with latent demand, waiting to explode. This means there are entire markets missing from Android. On iOS, aside from orders of magnitude more music production apps than on Android, the burgeoning USB audio/MIDI hardware industry includes plug-and-play, class-compliant devices like USB sound cards, USB mixers, USB microphones, USB headphones, USB recording interfaces (guitar, voice), MIDI keyboards, MIDI button pads, MIDI controllers, MIDI-enabled instruments (such as MIDI wind instruments), synthesizers, effects, drumpads, mixing consoles, DAW workstations and DJ Controllers.Īll of which hardware manufacturers would happily release to eager Android users, but can’t.
Android boasts 1.4 billion (30 day active) users, and Android’s share of the global smartphone OS market (share in unit shipments) is greater than 80%.Īnd on not a single one of those Android devices does either USB audio or MIDI - two indisputable, keystone technologies for audio, music creation, production and performance - ‘run’ without crippling problems. Follow people’s pockets all around the world, there are more 3 billion super-computers that run on either ARM+iOS or ARM+Android.
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