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Will FCPX be continued?
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So 6 weeks on from the last update, you think it means a company with no present update makes you “worry” that said company will drop the program? Hmmmm… nuff said.
I think its reasonable to expect a QUALITY update, (which means TIME) than to just spit out a minor tweak in a short period – because here is what we’d hear in that case:
“Arghghgh is THIS all we get from this update????”””Plus it says right on the Apple site that an update is expected in JANUARY. It does not say WE ARE DROPPING FCPX. Why would they do that anyway?
Patience is a virtue.
But yes, I do understand the frustration of bugs. There are plenty for sure, but as others have pointed out, this is not V10, it is V1.
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Let’s be realistic. Avid and Adobe haven’t been routinely releasing patches, bug-fixes or updates on a 6-weeks basis either.
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[Oliver Peters]Let’s be realistic. Avid and Adobe haven’t been routinely releasing patches, bug-fixes or updates on a 6-weeks basis either.
No, but Adobe/AVID weren’t touting an App Store release as a way to roll out patches even faster. Doesn’t seem like Apple has released any patches faster than the other two.
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[Tony West]Yes, there are other smart phones out there besides the Iphone, but I’m almost surprised when I see someone pull one out.”
https://news.yahoo.com/rim-share-us-smartphone-market-slips-223809872.html
“Android was the top smartphone platform with a 46.9 percent share of the US market at the end of November, up from 43.8 percent.”
“Apple’s market share also rose during the period — by 1.4 percentage points to 28.7 percent.”
“Samsung remained the top handset manufacturer in the United States with 25.6 percent of US mobile subscribers at the end of November,up from 25.3 percent at the end of August.”
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[Gary Huff] “Doesn’t seem like Apple has released any patches faster than the other two.”
While that is true as far as timing to date, if you are on Lion, the FCP X updates do install as a smaller “patch” than with 10.6.8. IOW, 10.7.2+ does not require a full reinstall of the app. However, the supposed speed at which ProApps can now crank out fixes is most likely marketing spin.
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[Mont Sherar] “Plus it says right on the Apple site that an update is expected in JANUARY.”
“Early 2012” does not mean January. I’d be very surprised if the release Apple is foreshadowing comes prior to March. We might still get another incremental big fix release before then though.
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[Oliver Peters] “However, the supposed speed at which ProApps can now crank out fixes is most likely marketing spin.”
I wouldn’t call it marketing spin, because I don’t think Apple ever claimed it.
I think it’s echo-chamber spin, invented here, offered as one of the compelling reasons we should cheer Apple moving away from physical shipments, and offered as a counter-argument to the the point that the App Store distribution model isn’t very facility friendly.
But that’s just pedantry — you’re absolutely right to call this spin. Bug fixes have been electronically delivered for FCP for as long as I can remember.
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Everybody has downloadable patches so Apple doesn’t have any special advantage in that.
I think the major updates will be a bit easier in that there’s no burn, print, box, ship routine and it’s conceivable they can be a bit more piecemeal given they don’t have to factor in the repeat costs for the above. I’d guess the worse case past example was the pain of shipping back discs to get new discs for the FCP 5.0 to 5.1 UB version update. On the other hand 4.0 to 4.5 was a download. It will be interesting to see when the next feature upgrade happen after the 2012 Q1 update.
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[Craig Seeman] “I think the major updates will be a bit easier in that there’s no burn, print, box, ship routine and it’s conceivable they can be a bit more piecemeal given they don’t have to factor in the repeat costs for the above.”
Wouldn’t that require Apple to change their development methodology? It seems that they are still using a traditional development model, with major features or re-engineering scheduled for major releases, then bug fixes and minor features for the point releases.
This may be driven more by testing and QA than by distribution.
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[Anders Haavie] “There will be a big update in January.”
[Craig Seeman] “Apple announced a major upgrade coming this quarter.”
[Andrew Richards] “Early 2012” does not mean January.
Anders and Craig, I think you’re both being optimistic. This is the company that took “summer” into late September. I think you have to read “Early 2012” as being “before mid-year”, and any release before then as being “ahead of schedule”.
Franz.
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