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Why is Larry Jordan making up stories?
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no for sure – it’s about time FCPX got a moment that forced way more people to address it.
It’s just the way Larry and some other people are going about it that might annoy you – there was another guy a few weeks ago who did a whole “let me tell you about the future, why you’re wrong, and why FCPX is the future” infomercial – that was a really annoying video. because all he was really doing was selling his company’s ability to effect certain workflows with certain hardware and software – he was selling X that day. not rolling around on the floor foaming at the mouth and seeing the future –
same with Larry – what really really annoyed me was his last line where said that it was his role such that ” I really want to have you keep a job” its right at the end. it was really manipulative language, because at the close he was largely equating an inevitable future that people couldn’t accept, with an inability to see X properly.
Larry is an extremely skilled salesman who uses intonation and explosive moments to sell hard. he’s not a venerable aw-shucks uncle.
the line about him trying to help people keep their jobs really stuck in my throat – that’s not what he was doing – he was selling himself, associated products, god you could hear philip hodgetts screaming from the wings at points – and for kicks, he was completely mangling the truth of the “hundred million dollar” film.he made up that budget by collapsing mestman’s article about bulgaria, with mestman’s end statement that there actually was a film on production with X.
Flat out I don’t think Larry was confused at all. I did ask him some stuff on the blog, and he refused to accept that he was mis-using the hundred million dollar line – then he deleted the entire exchange.
that said – go X – I’m all for it, I own it, and I’ll happily shell out for 10.1 – I’m incredibly curious to see what apple decide to do with it.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “” chippy and snotty with Craig Slattery” yeah, I was a bit of a wanker there “
As I recall, Craig could hold his own in the “chippy and snotty” wanker department. I thought it was all one glorious prize fight.
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ersatz civil disobedience is the new western drug chris. one does scrabble for a mainline.
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I’m curious, Aindreas, if this is a difference in advertising language.
Every year, I have to send broadcast spots over via AdStream, to be broadcast in the UK.
The amount of substantiation that needs to happen on these silly little adverts is astounding to me. It is not like this in the US. Sure, there are legal statements to protect everyone involved, but it is more geared towards protecting the advertiser. On submitting to Adstream, the protection seems to be more geared towards the consumer, and therefore if it is right for the consumer, it is right for the advertiser.
It is, for lack of eloquence, a royal pain in the ass for me and my clients, but I do have the utmost respect for the consumer protection oversight, in that consumers aren’t being sold “lies” (big quotes) and there is actual protocol in place in order for everyone to do the best that they can, and prove what they are saying is true.
I have no doubt that Larry would like to see all of his constituents gainfully employed. His livelihood sort of depends on it, don’t you think? I don’t think he is lying. He also makes a living on demoing software, software that he himself does not create or sell. Anyone who is self-employed is automatically a salesman. Like it or not, they have to be. His website is larryjordan.biz not larryjordan.org
Larry is no more lying than when I get an email from a reseller telling me that the product that they have is going to change my post production world. Forever. Revolutionize, perhaps.
Larry Jordan has to sell his services, so what? It doesn’t make him a liar.
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I’m pretty sure I never used the word lie – did I? lots of posts. I thought I was quite careful about that.
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Correct you said “making up stories”… and the difference is?
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Fair point!
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So by ‘making up stories’, you mean not telling the truth?
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you said it – not me.
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