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“Apple and working with businesses” article
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Really?
Not the only, but to me, the best definition of “art” I ever encountered was one that defined it as something that when a human being is exposed to it – it CHANGES the person.
To me, that seems as defensible a definition as any.
I’d also accept others I’ve heard based around “singularity of vision” – or “the ability to produce something of a highly refined aesthetic” to be fine as well. Heck, even something about the ability to motivate others to extraordinary successes by force of will or personality (Sun Tzu was an “artist” of war in that context.) would be fine.
By any of those standards, most people would agree that Mr. Job’s life output quite often reached the level of “art.”
Feel free to disagree, but I suspect that history may regard any contention that Mr. Jobs wasn’t an “artist” particularly of and for his times – to be a bit pigheaded.
FWIW.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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[Christian Schumacher] “That, of course, was another decade, with different aspects and different business prospects than today.
Now, with the iThings and being a mega company they were not back then, I don’t see FCP X as a game changer, at all. It is merely a transitional product that will serve only those who embrace a simpler computing experience.
I’m not sure if it will represent the same as several former software products of them have done since that time.”Fair enough. You see it one way. I see it another. Time will tell who’s vision is more accurate.
They certainly ARE a mega-company today. But I think they’re evolving in ways that FCP-X fits directly into.
For example, their nascent and evolving “cloud” strategy out of North Carolina came online in the form of “iTunes Match” earlier today. It’s moving auditory content into a searchable database where the data persists more in the cloud, and less as “duplicates” on personal hard drives. Since “songs” and “videos” are just both just alternate forms of digital data these days – perhaps the music service is just the “light data test case” to prove the concept for some future time when those servers will be just as as happy to host all our finished video projects alongside it’s bank of hollywood movies.
It’s a bit like where Vimeo Pro is going right now.
This is a very efficient model, btw. I know I gained BACK a significant amount of space on my portable devices she I signed up for iTunes Match earlier today because now there’s an alternative to duplicating my entire song library on each of my music devices. One copy of each song serves every device. That’s pretty efficient! It also means that as I add devices in the future, they simply connect to my “library” rather than having to re-download all the content as local files to get going.
*IF* they ever in some distant future, do something similar with video – wouldn’t a descendent tool based on FCP-X which links database search to visuals be pretty useful?
That would mean that regular pedestrian (as opposed to big shop connected systems who are already playing the “connected storage systems” game right now) video editing might migrate from a thing done on a closed system, toward something done via linked and connected discrete systems?
It’s beyond my brain to see how this WILL play out – but not how it MIGHT over time.
Like I say. We’ll see whether Apples plan is something we intuit right now – or something that we don’t have a real clue about at this point.
Fun to speculate tho.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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With iCloud, do you still keep a local copy of your music or does your music stream from iCloud to your iDevice?
I can see situations where you won’t have any 3G or Wifi connection and want to listen to music.
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Haven’t had more than a cursory look since I’ve been busy. But it appears that once iCloud “syncs” your library – all your owned music shows up as iCloud links with a special icon in your music library. I don’t think it’s fully “resident” on your device at that point, but it does appear to start playing immediately on a click. Also, on that initial click, the icon changes – so maybe that’s an indicator that it’s now being transferred to local storage?
I don’t know more than that after my first 15 minutes playing with it.
Sorry.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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[Frank Gothmann] “The most ludicrous thing of recent weeks is people starting to call Jobs an artist. Get real and grow up!
“Really, this is grown-up talk?
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