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Who was The Target For FCP X?
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[David Dobson] “Right, well who really believed they were going to get a professional NLE for $300? Right off the bat you had to spend another $50 for Compressor. So in the end, if the components you need to make the thing work for you come in around $1000, well, that at least will make sense.”
Really? Is $300 for FCP X really all that different than $1000 for FCP, Motion, Compressor, Color, DVD SP, Soundtrack Pro and Cinema Tools? While price usually hints at quality Apple completely tosses that out the window. I mean, Color used to be a $25,000 program that Apple included at no extra charge.-Andrew
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Mustn’t… feed… troll….
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[Simon Ubsdell] “I couldn’t agree more – it really offends to have had to pay to beta test a rushed and shoddily put together release, but to hear that I’m going to have to pay unspecified extra amounts to Apple and third parties to get basic funtionality implemented is genuinely repugnant.”
I think they were probably just clarifying that at some point they’re going to charge for an update, which is something worth clarifying, given that it’s not something Apple has ever done yet with an app sold through the App Store.
Possibly they might also sell certain functionality though in-app purchasing (which the Mac App Store supports in Lion). This would be annoying to folks who thought they’d get everything they needed for $300… but, well people did comment that $300 was pretty cheap for a serious NLE. It could actually be fairly brilliant long-term if Apple sold the base package for $300 (or even less), and then users with more specialized high-end needs could add modules via in-app purchase. This could provide a lot of flexibility for scaling to different use cases, and would probably make it easier for Apple to internally justify adding features for more niche markets, because they’d have a way to directly generate additional revenue from the users who needed those features.
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[Chris Kenny] “It could actually be fairly brilliant long-term if Apple sold the base package for $300 (or even less), and then users with more specialized high-end needs could add modules via in-app purchase.”
But my problem is I’m probably going to have to shell out for all those third party solutions in order to find out whether or not FCPX will actually work for me as a total solution – something it’s impossible for me to judge until I have used those third party add-ons – and by then I will be several hundred dollars out of pocket on what by anybody’s guess is at present a speculative investment. My best bet at this point is to wait for other guinea pigs to carry out that experiment for me … I don’t feel like extending my guinea pig status too much further at this point.
Simon Ubsdell
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Where did you see 1600 units sold? That doesn’t sound right at all.
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Hear, hear!
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Can’t wait for FCP 8… I reckon Apple is just playing a sick joke. Right?
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