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Computers = Trucks?
John Lilly, former Mozilla CEO, on where all this computer stuff is going. Anyone familiar with my posts around here will rightly surmise that I tend to agree with his sentiment.
Feel free to draw any parallels you want with the NLE situation. Or not.
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I agree with the idea here, but just to round this off at the pass before certain individuals pick up on it and try to use it as some sort of proof of their “forward-thinkingness”:
I picked up a phrase some time ago that I think applies: “The next big thing is always beneath contempt.”
does not automatically mean that FCPX is going to become the standard within the next couple of years. Sometimes, things simply stay contemptible.
Carry on.
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OK. Get me a computer that is “Like a ROCK.” or “Built Ford Tough” – Let others run a computer that’s like a Prius.
Brian Mulligan
Senior Editor – Autodesk Smoke
WTHR-TV Indianapolis,IN, USA
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[Brian Mulligan] “OK. Get me a computer that is “Like a ROCK.” or “Built Ford Tough” – Let others run a computer that’s like a Prius.”
My read on the “Truck” analogy is more along the lines of a commercial vehicle than a light pickup. People drive F-150s as if they were cars all the time. Nobody has a box truck as a daily driver. When I imagine the trucks in Jobs’ D8 analogy, I think of these:
Totally configurable, commercial grade, can be flexible or specialized, but not something you’ll drive out to dinner. If the iPad is a compact car, laptops are the light pickup trucks.Best,
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[Brian Mulligan] ” Let others run a computer that’s like a Prius.”
So you DIDN’T like those NAB iMacs? 😉
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Prius = iPad or iPhone.
Brian Mulligan
Senior Editor – Autodesk Smoke
WTHR-TV Indianapolis,IN, USA
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[Andrew Richards] ” Nobody has a box truck as a daily driver.”
My daily driver from 88 to 95.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Brian Mulligan] “Prius = iPad or iPhone.”
Yes, all three are overpriced status symbols.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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What make/model is that?
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Andy -
The Prius is an overpriced status symbol? I don’t know about that. It starts around 24 or 25 grand, and if you live where I live, where gas is usually a buck a gallon or more over the national average, and if you drive as much as I do–around 22–24,000 miles a year, the Prius begins to seem pretty darn budget oriented. 45-50 mpg sounds pretty good to me.
https://gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx
I have a hybrid–a little Honda CRZ–that lets me gad about up and down the coast, and back and forth to the mountains, without me going broke. Around here overpriced status symbols generally begin at 70 grand plus, have lots of cylinders, and shout “Price of gas? That’s just something I don’t even need to think about.”
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It’s a ’68 Parcel Delivery van. Grumman made the aluminum body, and it’s on a Ford 1 ton commercial chassis.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
Where were you on 6/21?
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