Argos

So they say 2010 will be the year of the tablet. It’s been about a month since the iPad has been released, and as seen on the app store, music based games and apps seem to have a pretty significant share of the current downloads… not really a surprise there. Hexler was pretty quick to get his great iPhone-based TouchOSC interface builder ready for the iPad, and I’m sure others are still in development. No word yet from the JazzMutant team — will they port their software to the iPad or release a competitively priced version of the Lemur? Hopefully we’ll see soon.

Work on the Argos codebase for portability across multiple platforms is still ongoing. The development has been following a direction of compartmentalization between the interface editor and viewer/user. While the desktop version will always be a combination of the two (for compatibility with tabletop surfaces), the precision needed to build full interfaces with complex behaviors just isn’t available on smaller devices (phones, tablets). The mobile version will consist of an interface for loading & organizing templates, with very limited capability to edit interfaces. Sound good?