For kicks: Apple in the medium term.

[Bob Woodhead]

Isn’t this the point in the edit where a black-clad, Kevlar-wearing dude fast ropes in from the sky and announces, “I’m from the Government, Trust Me.” ?

(getting back under my tinfoil)

[Timothy Auld]

I no longer wear the tinfoil hat. I have lined my entire edit room with it. It provides protection but sucks for recording voice overs.

Tim

[Don Walker]

Has anybody actually met Aindreas? How do we know this isn’t Tim Wilson, ghost writing this to keep this forum interesting? Inquiring minds want to know……..

don walker
texarkana, texas

John 3:16

[Craig Seeman]

Discreet/Autodesk
Cleaner
Cinestream (EditDV)
Combustion
Edit*

Adobe
Premiere (the first series pre Pro)

Avid
Threatening to leave the Mac market

Sony
a trail of dead formats including D2 and BetaSX

And I’m sure there are many other products dead or nearly killed by many other companies. I buy what gives me good ROI and anticipate having to move on at some point like a prepared professional should.

[Gary Huff]

You must need some Yoga this morning because you’re really stretching here.

[Marcus Moore]

This is completely off-topic, but what you said in relation to Maps was COMPLETELY inaccurate in every way possible.

Point 1: Apple and Google could not agree on terms about Maps. In short, Apple wanted turn-by-turn directions and vector maps for faster downloads (like Google was supplying on Android). Google wanted more access to iPhone user personal info. Neither was willing to give the other what they wanted. So Google wasn’t “kicked off”, Apple and Google both walked away from the agreement. Apple replaced Google’s back end data with their own set.

Point 2: If you look for news around that Australia issue. The info that left people in the middle of the desert (in a park I believe) when looking for a specific town wasn’t an error in Apple’s maps, but one in the data set supplied by the Australian government. And as reported a day or two later was ALSO in Google’s map data as well.

Point 3: Point 2 had absolutely nothing to do with when Google Maps was released on the iPhone. It was published when Google had it ready. It wasn’t “held back” by Apple, anymore than Google Search, or Google Voice, or Google Earth, or the YouTube apps were.

In the end both Apple and Google got what they wanted.

Apple isn’t in a position where they’re completely reliant on Google for core functionality to one of their fiercest rivals in the mobile space. Plus they put out of competitive product with the features they wanted, PLUS they now have a Google Maps version that has what they were asking for all along.

Google gets the access it wanted to the data that Google Maps users provide it (since you have to agree to that to use it) without Apple’s interference.

[Craig Seeman]

[Gary Huff] “you’re really stretching here.”

Tell that to the angry Discreet/Autodesk users.
Maybe you didn’t live through Avid’d games either at time when bigger facilities were hit with the potential of millions of dollars in expenses.

[Joseph Owens]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “Anyone who bet on Color – dead in the water
Anyone who bet on Shake – dead in the water.
Anyone who bet on FCP studio – dead in the water.”

But the continuing reality of the multiverse is “Surf, Or Die”. Steven St. Croix, MIX Magazine. From about a hundred years ago.

I bet on Silicon Color Final Touch. Apple grabbed it, but it was walking dead when BM Resolve launched — it wasn’t necessarily Apple that killed COLOR.

I still make some money with Apple SHAKE, even though I still think of it as nreal, but no longer growing, that’s for sure.

I would never have chosen FCP, but it was what everybody else was using, and face it, like a cat at the end of its life, sometimes it isn’t evil to put it down. Too bad the replacement was the runt kitten of the litter, and its competition, if you can stretch the point, continues to be the full-grown big cats, the kind that can’t purr. Up, Simba!

jPo

“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.

[Lance Bachelder]

Hadn’t noticed.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California

[Frank Gothmann]

[Craig Seeman] “Sony
a trail of dead formats including D2 and BetaSX
“

D2 is on the Ampex Graveyard, Sony wasn’t the responsible party.
While Sony has left some dead formats behind, those were formats that didn’t really get wide market acceptance. Those who did, Sony supports extremely well. You can even play back Digibeta in an HDCAM-SR deck today.
As for the rest (Avid), you could argue like that. Question is: did they get punished for that behaviour. And yep, Avid got it pretty badly.
Apple hardly ever gets any serious lashes from its customer base and that is the problem. People play along and make due especially hardware wise because there is no alternative unless you want to switch platforms.
Each and everyone has to decide if that’s the way they want to play that game, now and in the future.

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