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arstechnica article on FCPX
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To expand on the metaphor…
Team Apple is in the big show with a high school pitcher.
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[Marvin Holdman] “Team Apple is in the big show with a high school pitcher. “
Apple is in many ways like an expansion team. They brought up the talent even though it’s not developed yet. There’s now the impact of bringing up that talent too soon. Or maybe another analogy is they dumped the veterans too soon. Granted they needed youth but the youth isn’t yet capable of taking on the day to day responsibilities. Now we have to be concerned that bringing up the talent too soon, damaged its future.
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Craig Seeman – “Apple is in many ways like an expansion team.”
More like they won the world series, fired the championship team and came back as an expansion team. Bogles the mind really. Like betting on a single number in roulette (to continue the metaphorical escapade!) If it hits, it’s going to be huge, but odds are against it. Of course, in this case, Apple can keep making the bet, over and over, until eventually it does hit.
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[Marvin Holdman] ”
More like they won the world series”Can you guys please start talking English so the rest of us know what you’re going on about!!!???
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[Marvin Holdman] “More like they won the world series, fired the championship team and came back as an expansion team.”
A reasonably analogy. That’s why I mentioned they could be like a team that dumped its veterans too soon. This gets back to the lack of a transition period which is very unlike Apple.
[Marvin Holdman] “Apple can keep making the bet, over and over, until eventually it does hit.”
They do do that. Remember the first iPhone had no outside apps at all. The jailbreakers keep throwing in features and, over time, Apple seems to adopt some of them.
I do hope to be holding the number on the hit. $299 is not a big risk investment for me as an end user.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “Can you guys please start talking English so the rest of us know what you’re going on about!!!???”
Football team wins World Cup and fires the stars and replaces them with talented secondary school athletes who haven’t be well coached yet.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “[Marvin Holdman] ”
More like they won the world series”Can you guys please start talking English so the rest of us know what you’re going on about!!!???
Simon Ubsdell
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https://www.tokyo-uk.com“Simon,
It’s a US based tortured metaphor free-for all.
As the father of a number of equally lame attempts to anthropomorphize this piece of inanimate computer code and extrapolate it’s features into something easier to understand, I understand the temptation.
Human teen sports players, no matter their talent and ability, get attached to drugs, or drink, bad moral behavior, inflated egos, or simply blow out knees with appalling regularity.
A stack of code either works or it doesn’t. And if it doesn’t it can be re-coded so that it does.
It’s an argument of features and implementation, not human fallibility.
Everyone posting here is smart enough to know that in the real world, the performance of a nearly endless recurrent waterfall of computer code shares very little in common with any biological organism.
But this kind of imaginary “what kind of friend would FCP-X be to ME if it was capable of friendship.” is fun. But not really all that useful, IMO.
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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I loved the way John Cleese explained the difference between the USA and the British –
“We speak English – you don’t. When we have a World’s Series anything we invite the rest of the world to compete. And when we greet our head of State, we only go down on one knee”….an obvious Clinton reference. I am Australian so I mention this as an amused outsider.Seriously though, sport metaphors even when understood are rather poor at describing the machinations of a very large corporation.
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[Michael Gissing] “Seriously though, sport metaphors even when understood are rather poor at describing the machinations of a very large corporation.
“Especially those large corporations who write and rewrite the rules of the game with no consideration of the integrity of either the game or the players.
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[Michael Gissing] “sport metaphors even when understood are rather poor at describing the machinations of a very large corporation.”
In the USA most sports teams and leagues are large corporations.
I think the amount of money spent on player development and salaries may dwarf the cost of some software development.
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