The Macintosh – Is it a Time Bomb for the Hard User?

[Christian Schumacher]

“MobileMe was killed because it was a dismal failure.
They didn’t kill it because some editors used it to share videos.”

Andrew, It wasn’t editors sharing movs only – a known small niche.
I know a lot of different content producers that used iDisk as well
This is the x-FCP forum, but I wasn’t thinking of editors exclusively.

Think here of all the photographers burned at their now-former-galleries.
Plus other creatives EOL’ed by the termination of iWeb hosting.

Adding those up you might want to rethink that.
Anyway, thank you for your response.

Cheers,

[Andrew Richards]

[Christian Schumacher] “Think here of all the photographers burned at their now-former-galleries.
Plus other creatives EOL’ed by the termination of iWeb hosting.”

Yes, dropping iDisk does suck for a a lot of people. I don’t mean to trivialize the inconvenience it causes people who depended on it. That there are alternatives out there doesn’t eliminate the hassle of having a service killed.

I’m still not convinced that Apple’s reboot of their web services product is a leading indicator that the Mac’s days are numbered. At least I hope it isn’t.

Best,
Andy

[Christian Schumacher]

My opinion is that Apple has been ejecting a lot of creatives by their latest decisions.
Mobile Me’s trimming did more than “sucking for a lot of people”.

I brought that up because I see it as one dot of a bigger picture.
Those “people” were loyal power users not regular folks with their iThings.

These folks are covered, indeed. And that’s my point.
The Mac should fit them accordingly in the near future.

Cheers,

[Andrew Richards]

I never really saw a lot of value in MobileMe, but it isn’t fair for me to project my opinion onto others. My characterization of MobileMe as a failure was with respect to how it did in the market it was aiming at (which I would argue was predominantly iLife users, not professional creatives).

Best,
Andy

[David Roth weiss]

[Andrew Richards] “I never really saw a lot of value in MobileMe, but it isn’t fair for me to project my opinion onto others. My characterization of MobileMe as a failure was with respect to how it did in the market it was aiming at (which I would argue was predominantly iLife users, not professional creatives).
“

After uploading clips, works in progress, or even finished projects to my iDisk, I can share links to those files from an iPhone app to anyone in the world from anywhere in the world I happen to be at the moment. It’s incredibly handy and it’s been a lifesaver innumerable times.

In addition, I have custom keyboard layouts, screen layouts, and all kinds of other helpful FCP things waiting for me on my iDisk, so if I ever find myself freelancing at client’s facility without the thumbdrive I normally carry, I can access whatever I need from any Mac with ease.

There are loads of other uses I could point out, but the two above make MobileMe a killer app for me.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

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[Christian Schumacher]

Any user iDisk can mount at anybody’s desktop.
A public folder accessible to all in any browser too.

iPhoto/iWeb together with Galleries/Webhosting are making money, yes.
Slow servers, oh yeah. But workflow implementation itself is flawless.

[David Roth weiss]

[Christian Schumacher] “Slow servers, oh yeah.”

Yes!!! Their servers were the slowest in history. They are now about twenty times faster, but still slow.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

Don’t miss my new Creative Cow Podcast: Producing Episodic TV with “24” Producer Michael Klick:
https://library.creativecow.net/weiss_roth_david/Podcast-Series-1_Michael-Klick/1

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Look, Adobe’s doing it. Are they the devil now, too?

https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204612504576609671964511508.html

Jeremy

[Christian Schumacher]

The apps address multiple areas of the creative process — image editing, ideation, sketching, mood boards, website and mobile app prototyping and presentation of finished work — Adobe said in a statement.
(…)
The Creative Cloud will be a hub for access to desktop and tablet applications, finding essential creative services and sharing work with others.

It just looks like others are picking up where Apple already left off…

Does that sound familiar?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Christian Schumacher] “It just looks like others are picking up where Apple already left off…

Does that sound familiar?
“

left off or is going?

I don’t know if you’ve been part of the discussions on having editing in the cloud, or FCPX on an iPad, but when those discussions come up, Apple gets lambasted.

When Adobe announces it, it’s all of a sudden logical.

Apple have really done themselves a PR disservice. No matter what happens, they will be vilified.

It was theirs to lose, I guess.