Andrew Kimery
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[Darren Roark] “Not sure if they are low volume, they are everywhere here in LA.”
Apple doesn’t release hard numbers by product line, but I’d bet the nMP is probably Apple’s lowest selling computer by a country mile. Okay, the Mac Mini, which hasn’t been updated since 2014, might be down there too but, iMacs dominate the desktop sales and the Apple laptops outsell the iMacs. Desktop workstations are a niche market these days and the nMP s a niche w/in that niche.
If there is a standard, computer industry range for ‘low volume’ I don’t know what it is, but the nMP is definitely low volume compared to everything else Apple sells.
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[Tim Wilson] “No other camera news worth talking about?
Me, I think an NAB without a new “disruptive” camera is a GOOD thing”
How about a fully modular camera from a secret company? Is that disruptive enough for you? 😉
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[Bill Davis] “They were pitching it as a way for pro and lucky amateur photogs (and presumably stock video shooters) to make extra income from their best photos – a kinda sorta crowd sourced shutter stock?
“AFAIK all the stock footage sites accept content from independent shooters so Adobe is just letting people know that Adobe Stock works like that too.
[Bill Davis] ” After all, “in app purchasing” is what drives most of the revenue in the app market space. The actual app is free or nearly so, the revenue stream from in-app purchases is what really matters. “
I think a distinction needs to be drawn between in-app purchasing (which is just buying something from w/in an app) and the freemuim business model where you give away (or sell very cheaply) a barebones app but then charge users a fee to unlock features (more filters in photography app or batch uploading for a cloud storage app etc.,). It’s a much maligned business approach (especially in the game community) but consumers love ‘free’ so it’s business reaction to race to the bottom that has gutted software companies over the last few years.
What Adobe is doing (and what Avid did 4 or 5 years ago but it never really caught on) is offering a portal from within the app that connects you to first and third party content that you’d normally have to leave the app in order to access. Instead of leaving the app to get a photo from Adobe Stock or a video clip from Pond5 or an effect from That Studio you can just do it from within PPro. I don’t see this as a tiptoeing towards a freemuim model (as that wouldn’t jive with their subscription approach) but just Adobe offering convenience to their users.
Avid’s attempt at this wasn’t nearly as smooth because it really wasn’t integrated the way Adobe’s panels are. With Avid, when you clicked on the Avid Store button (or whatever it was called) it would basically open up a web browser within Avid and you’d be on an ‘app store’ type web page that had all Avid plugins and the like. When you bought something you’d still have to manually install it so it didn’t do much for users aside from showing off how relatively small MC’s ‘eco system’ is.
[Bill Davis] “Will Resolve plumb in a “pay for famous color grades” gallery?”
There are companies/people that sell Resolve presets and I think it would be cool if Resolve could do something like Adobe is doing so you could have a one click, buy-and-install experience directly in the app.
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[Bill Davis] “Exactly. Pure performance is all that matters.
Just look at how rocket cars dominate the roads.
Cuz, you know, speed.
; )
“Performance and speed aren’t the same thing. Performance is basically how well does Thing X accomplish the goals that Thing X was designed to accomplish. Speed may be a big part of the equation or it may not.
Ex. mobile chips prioritize power usage and heat generation over speed.As for how much performances matters, that depends on the individual and the situation. To your point though, not melting down under load is probably something that matters more than top end speed. 😉
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[Darren Roark] “I have a feeling that when the new nMP’s hit there will be GPU upgrades available for the older models. The SSD and the RAM are user upgradeable officially, the GPUs seem just as easy to swap out.”
If true I’ll bet there will be a nice amount of sticker shock to go with it. I can’t imagine custom GPUs for a low volume computer will be cheap.
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[Oliver Peters] “I see what you did there :)”
Couldn’t help myself… 😉
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There is a known issue related to the GPUs on some new Mac Pros and I wonder if the pool of dead nMPs in question were some of those machines?
The symptoms described by Apple sound exactly the same as the GPU problem on many MBPs were the GPUs got too hot and eventually fried. I don’t remember if it was a design flaw or a manufacturing defect but a replacement logic board is the only fix.
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[Bill Davis] “the whole thing is currently a massive tempest in a teapot “
That’s the Internet in a nutshell. 😉
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[Marcus Moore] ”
USB3 wasn’t a thing until after the 2010 MP was released. “I know product development takes time so you can’t just add stuff at the last minute but, IIRC, PCs started showing up with USB 3.0 in ’09/’10, and AFAIK there was nothing preventing Apple from adding it or eSATA later if they wanted to (it’s not like they don’t have a habit of getting first dibs on tech if they want it). They just didn’t want to add those features, presumably, because they were focused on the nMP. I wonder if nMP development took longer than they thought it would and that’s why they released the meager speed bump in 2012?
[Marcus Moore] ” I say this is an anomaly, based on some specific hardware hurdles.
I might be wrong, but that’s my thinking.”
I hope so but given the path of the MP from 2010 to today I’m not exactly instilled with confidence.
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[Bill Davis] “Or am I getting this somehow wrong and Apple should be raked over the coals for not seeing this coming back 15 years when they designed QT?”
Okay. I was just questioning why Ricardo kept pointing the finger at Adobe. There are security holes in Apple’s software and the only fix is to uninstall said software. Is that info inaccurate? Maybe it’s all Apples fault. Maybe it’s all MS’s fault. Maybe it’s both their faults. If you want to speculate about why, and float conspiracy theories, isn’t it convenient that the security flaws only impact Apple’s competitors and not Apple?
Regardless, I can’t see how Adobe is at fault for any of this which was my only point.