[Aindreas Gallagher]

Jesus Christ Chris, I mean, Jeeesus Christ. What was that? “ten days that shook professional”?

You sound like Tolstoy meets a coffee house in shoreditch?

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

hey – did you have to call him out that loudly? His position here as a fellow FCP user and his position with his company could have been two ships that passed in the night. A lot of people come on here to vent their frustration with this situation.

[Mike Petty] “but anybody on these boards who is in a client service business already knows what I would say.”

I can’t say I knew what you were going to say, but I would have guessed you were going to say it really really loudly. As a response to his post, I thought your hypothetical “I’d have you fired buddy – I’d ring them up right now” was overbearing and completely out of line on an FCP editors user discussion forum.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

Its a *tiny* bit hyperbolic to say this, but a lot of people have wondered for a long time what apple would be like without the laser focus of Steve Jobs at the tiller – I think in some way this rollout gives some indication. Its just crazy messy, it’s like a bomb has gone off.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

me too, me too.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

yes I read it that way too. he makes an almost weirdly interesting projection about a future incarnation of the FCPX brain existing also at the content consumption end as well – assembling content elements on the fly – (maybe speciously) references the motion publishing as a proto example of the video publishing mechanism he’s on about? that’s sort of crazy and interesting. And well, he’s pretty noticeably critical of apple overall, both in terms of execution, timing (too early with a completely unfinished product) And kind of ends up wondering where exactly apple’s heads at lately, ala the fading Steve..
be interesting to see what gruber has to say. He seems to know one or two people at apple. I’m hoping he won’t just run PR defence for them.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

still. the optics aren’t great though are they? for a software launch fiasco in truly perilous PR waters, or, a “new coke debacle” as the huffington post puts it, trying to shut down debate on your boards seven days after the debate got going doesn’t really sound like the cleverest thing to me. It actually sounds like they’re handing the next headline over – “Under pressure from petition, Apple stifles user debate”.
Honest to god, I’m being vaguely agnostic here – it just sounds like a surprisingly stupid move.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

You make an interesting “needs of the many needs of the few” argument but the “self-styled ‘pros'” crack seems unnecessary. Said the man who called randy ubillos a baboons testicle or something..

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

No to be fair I’ve never seen a net/fire/s**tstorm the scale of this, (said the man busily pumping the bellows at the flames…)
And yes – I also thought they would put FCS back on the shelves for a bit – nearly everyone thought they were going to do that – I think even gruber said he thought they were going to do that. He actually advised them to call FCPX FCP express X sure. And that was coming from Gruber. You’d think self motivated interest to protect their position at the facilities would have had them throw it back on the shelves for a bit if only to get the words EOL out of everyone’s mouth.. but well sure, you know – its apple, they’re not for the turning.
Although – they *did* guarantee FCP7 in Lion. that’s more than they had done previously I think? If that’s a new commitment, its not an insignificant engineering commitment.
I personally think we’ve had our last and only word from the mountain – It’ll be what it’ll be like. their software strategy is locked – we’re no shifting it.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

welllllll, I thought that maybe if we all roared at the top of our lungs 24 hours a day until we turned blue, we might get OMF licensed for the app, and the FCS back in the channel, and the tracks turned back on… 😉
(i know what am I, crazy?)

that being said – man but I am roared out. Brain hoarse altogether. Although I do want to read about relational databases tho, they actually sound sort of madly interesting.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

Craig, do you know but what you’re saying there really does sound crazily interesting, and insofar as I get it from yours and chris kenny’s comments, I do dimly understand that Apple have been extremely rigourous with the new underpinnings of this software – it feels like a bit of mad technical moonshot, ZFS for all and damn the old architecture thing, and really its hard not to have sneaking admiration for that on a basic intellectual cleanliness level.
there is no way I’m going to regurgitate my other criticisms – but you’ve got me more than curious enough to read properly, and quite a bit more, about the technical architecture underpinning the software.

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