"The condenser mic in my iPad (again, first generation) is acceptable, but leaves something to be desired, particularly on the high end"
If the mic on the iPad is acceptable to the reviewer. it goes pretty far to show how he reviewing the product (not as a DAW. but as a really awesome toy).
TouchOSC + your choice of DAW is going to be pretty common for a while I think.
As stated after that sentence, I'd definitely recommend a USB mic to anybody recording at home. When you're on the go and need a built-in mic, the bar is pretty low.
It's just really slow - I don't know how Google's architecture works but it might just be that the doc lives on a single shard that is being heavily hit now.
Lack of support for third party codecs (FLAC specifically).
Lack of auto conversion support when transferring to devices.
"Genius" Playlists never work for anything obscure
Ping is terrible
Lack of tagging support (no autotag feature)
I use mediamonkey (i'm on PC), once you switch you can never go back. I can organize my collection exactly how I want it from in the software, i can browse my harddrives to preview music before I add to my library. It supports pretty much every codec under the sun AND will convert it to compatible versions for whatever device i'm syncing to.
There is also a plugin for discogs tagging support (one of the best online discographies in the world), a plug in for "autodj" (based off last.fm).
I realize that not everyone in the world is as anal about organizing music as I am, but for the job, itunes can't compete.
