Gary Pollard
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Or maybe people with more money are more likely to have the extra money to spend on Macs.
I use both, and am platform agnostic. Maybe I’m only 22% richer.
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[Darren Kelly] “One thing I never became was a Mac Snob. It isn’t better because Steve Jobs says it is. When will you stop drinking the Kool-Aid!”
One thing that many people are not acknowledging here is that Apple’s quality control has gone seriously downhill over the past few years. Maybe Foxconn has something to do with it.
At a recent meeting with five Mac user friends I was the ONLY one who had not had to send his computer in for servicing or exchange in the past six months. And three of those were brand new Macbook pros.
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[Marc Fisher] “who the hell ever buys RAM form Dell or HP?” … who the hell ever buys Apple’s own RAM at its exorbitant prices, when it’s generic anyway? I certainly don’t.
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Unless or until Apple gives an indication this product is not EOL they are asking you to give them more money to fuel your car to drive off a cliff.
Why is full price FCP7 a good deal right now, when all it does is buy you a little extra time?
If you don’t have faith in FCP X opening a brave new world (and I’m beginning to wonder if even Apple does) this is a dead end, pouring good money after bad. No project you start on your new FCP7 seat will be openable on FCP X, and it seems unlikely this will be fixed.
Also, why would you buy this even to train students or staff if you really believe the new “paradigm” of video editing is going to render that training useless? FCP 7 will train staff to edit better on Premiere than on FCP X.
And you can get Premiere, which is not a dead end, cheaper. And Avid for around the same price.
This in itself, without a future, seems a strange – or at least half-baked – business decision.
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Ironically, many of the same people complaining about them bringing out a substandard product to meet a release date are now complaining that they aren’t releasing the updates in time to meet a release date.
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[Craig Seeman] “Steve Jobs now moves to the Ace Closer.” I think you’re overestimating the state of his health, according to the most recent pictures on TMZ and elsewhere. I wish him a strong recovery, but he is looking seriously frail.
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[Scott Sheriff] “That is funny that you say that. When I read some of the posts complaining about the old timers and how we are afraid of the revolution that’s coming, I picture a 20-something hipster, sitting alone, wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt, in a trendy urban coffee shop, typing it on an ipad, while his Macbook has a vimeo of some unheard of band going on it.”
SOS
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I was a newbie, and so was everyone else on this board.
And old hands were trashing our methods.
I still remember the first time I shot in the “magic hour”.
“There’s no magic hour. There’s just day time and too dark.”
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Either you believe it or you don’t. You are inferring from people’s posts, just as some here like to infer about Apple’s plans (which you apparently don’t support, at least if those inferences are positive)
An admitted straw man is still a straw man.
And by definition, that’s hyperbole.
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Not the entire assertion no, and as I said I too see the limitations in FCP X.
“The Luddites were a social movement of 19th-century English textile artisans who protested – often by destroying mechanized looms – against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which they felt were leaving them without work and changing their way of life.”
Frankly I have rather more respects for the genuine Luddites than for glee clubs. Because the genuine Luddites were right.
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