Will Audion Return?
Audion was a great product by Panic.
In the very early days of MP3 management, and well before the ubiquity of the iPod, MP3 management software was much more of an open game. When iTunes came out, it really was revolutionary and, admittedly, a damm fine system. The authors said themselves, "but Audion is instead competing with a product that, you know, we actually use ourselves. When you double click the competition in the morning, that’s a pretty good sign that it’s time to hang up your hat! But there’s a completely new opportunity for them, or any other software developer for that matter, to go where Apple dare not go– where Apple literally fears of going, yet where Apple consistently says they already are: in the center of our digital universe. But how do we get there? Read More…
Instead of using this opportunity to add a desperately needed Mac CPU between the $600/$800 Mini and the Mac Pro which starts at $2500 (that’s at least a $1700 difference between desktop products!) For comparison, the MacBook/Pro line ranges in price from $1100, $1300, $1500, $2000, $2500, $2800– never a difference of more than $500. The iPods range in price from $80, $150, $200, $250, $350– again, a nice range of products with a nice range of prices. In as much as everyone expect(ed)s new iPods based on the iPhone much more elegant touch screen, we can expect that Apple will continue to distribute their portable music products so that there is a size and price for most everyone. So why does Apple fail to use the same logic in their core Macintosh product line? 
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