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  • Moronic marketing

    One thing that seems to be mostly overlooked by critics of SongSmith (with whom I mostly agree) is that the underlying technology seems to be quite nifty if even advanced. I think MicroSoft's moronic attempt to market the program has completely screwed up what in the hands of sane adults would otherwise...
    Posted to General Discussion (Forum) by BONO on 01-14-2009
    Filed under: marketing, Screw-up, GarageBand
  • This "Songsmith"..SOFTWARE IS A JOKE! (specially the name)...the sad thing is.......

    ALOT of people are going to take it seriously and eventually put their work on iTunes, and even sadder is that they WILL get a few downloads most likely by 10yr olds and younger IF ANYTHING. myspace.com/subsonicslapz or search iTunes for Subsonicslapz thats my work with logic 8
    Posted to General Discussion (Forum) by subsonicslapz on 01-13-2009
    Filed under: marketing, inside joke, Overestimation of General Public's knowledge of music production, underestimation of general public's common sense, plausibly deniable, give Lisa credit where credit's due!, Apple, Mac OSX, Mac, OS X, irony VISTA SongSmith runs on a Mac per Microsoft, rude Windoze fanboi refuted, European Union, Songsmith, Edit: My OS: Windows XP Home + Service Pack 3
  • That video...

    I guess someone somewhere must think it a laff riot that they prepared a video for this product that shows the 'happy users' cheerily using this software on a battered Macintosh G4 laptop from about 5 or 6 years ago -- a PPC chip incapable of running Windows, Bootcamp or no. And the kids are...
    Posted to General Discussion (Forum) by ks2problema on 01-09-2009
    Filed under: marketing, inside joke
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