apple’s response to David Pogue

[Chris Kenny]

[Herb Sevush] “Finally you got it. They made a “choice.” Thank you. We are finally on the same page. I’ve never argued that they made a good or bad choice, I’ve only argued that they made a choice, and that choice tells you a lot about their values. We can infer what we want about what their highest values are, but we know that protecting the investment of long term FCP users wasn’t one of them”

What it tells you is that Apple is willing to sacrifice backwards compatibility in favor of innovation, which is not news. It’s Apple being Apple.

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[Herb Sevush]

Chris –

Windows going from 6.1 to 7 was an actual upgrade to a product. The higher version number actually represented something. ( I don’t know anything about Solaris but I’m guessing the same holds true there.)

As for OS9 – “versions of Mac OS X prior to 10.5 include a compatibility layer called Classic, enabling users to run applications and hardware requiring Mac OS 9 from within Mac OS X.” Jeez, that sounds like an upgrade to me, all this programming to make sure previous legacy software can still work in a new environment. I wonder what company could have thought of that?

You have stated over and over again this is a brand new product and NOT an upgrade so that in this case going from version 7.0.3 to Version 10.0 is supposed to represent what – other than fraudulent marketing hype.

Can’t you even admit this – it doesn’t weaken your argument for FCPX’s future to at least acknowledge that the marketing behind this was totally out of line.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[David Roth weiss]

[Herb Sevush] “You keep on explaining FCPX’s limitations by saying it’s an “initial release” or it’s a “1.0 release.” “

When it’s convenient to call FCP X “completely new” Chris calls it new.

When it’s convenient to call it a replacement for FCP 7 he’ll use that.

It’s a common way to win arguments when the facts alone don’t support you.

Lawyers do it… Apple does it… Chris Kenny does it…

David Roth Weiss
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[Chris Kenny]

[Herb Sevush] “Windows going from 6.1 to 7 was an actual upgrade to a product. The higher version number actually represented something. “

You’re misunderstanding. The product Microsoft markets under the name “Windows 7” is Windows 6.1. “Windows 7” is just the marketing name.

[Herb Sevush] “As for OS9 – “versions of Mac OS X prior to 10.5 include a compatibility layer called Classic, enabling users to run applications and hardware requiring Mac OS 9 from within Mac OS X.” Jeez, that sounds like an upgrade to me, all this programming to make sure previous legacy software can still work in a new environment. I wonder what company could have thought of that?”

Apple just stuck the old OS in a virtual machine. The rough equivalent with FCP 7 and FCP X is that you can have both installed on the same system.

[Herb Sevush] “Can’t you even admit this – it doesn’t weaken your argument for FCPX’s future to at least acknowledge that the marketing behind this was totally out of line.
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What are we talking about here? Some web site copy? Apple hasn’t done a done of marketing around this product.

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