[Mike Petty]

Thanks for all of the great information and advice. I found a couple of players on Amazon that will work nicely.

I now belive I can get my client to move boldly into 2010.

MP

[Mike Petty]

I have seen agencies lose accounts for sillier things than that and I have friends at that shop that could could suffer as a result…so yeah, I got a little torqued.

That notwithstanding appropriate forum and volume control concerns noted.

Just curious though…what would you do if you heard one of your employees was disparaging one on your biggest/best clients in public forum? Or if you saw that one of your vendor’s employees was disparaging your brand/company publicly?

Rhetorical question…let’s move on to the issues you point out are more germane to the forum.

[Mike Petty]

Are you kidding me?

Forget the whole FCP/FCPX situation…This is unbelievable.

You are publicly ripping Apple for their decision to pull your post and calling into question their motives for doing so? Under normal circumstances I would have no problem with that (even though the TOS is crystal clear).

But…I read your bio…YOU WORK FOR TBWA/CHIAT/DAY – APPLE’S AD AGENCY! Are you crazy?

Man I could do about an hour on the scope of your disloyalty to your employer and your client (Yeah that’s right…if Apple is your agency’s client then they are in fact your client, too)…but anybody on these boards who is in a client service business already knows what I would say.

And just for the record…Chiat/Day was my agency for five years. If I heard that one of their staff (I don’t care who or in what department) was ripping my brand in a public forum like this…I’d pick up the phone and you would be history so fast you could not clock it.

Apologies to the Cow community for this personal interjection

[Mike Petty]

You all realize that this daffy petition is open to anybody and has BS names in it right? And the more press it gets the more knuckleheads with no credentials will sign it.

Further I just saw a tweet from Philip Hodgetts where he was pretty irate that someone had used his name on the petition without his knowledge or permission.

These online, open petitions are bogus and have zero impact on the issue at hand.

And in anticipation of some “Oh yes they do” responses…please show me some facts or documented coverage that supports that claim. And I mean where an online petition has predicated substantive change…not just generated press.

Thanks for your time…happy editing.

[Mike Petty]

I wonder what time the internal e-mail went out yesterday that directed that FCS support be re- hung on the site and also directed that a PR person is to be attached to Ubilos 24hours a day and if he opens his mouth again he sleeps with the fishes?

[Mike Petty]

I wore the green for 3.5 years defending our right to do so! GBA.

[Mike Petty]

I think we can all agree that part of a lawyer’s job is to irritate people. That said…he was not remotely addressing whether Apple has made a good or bad product (and neither am I). He was saying that anybody who bet’s their proverbial ranch on one software platform without having some sort of legal protection is…imprudent.

Don’t you think that Ford, for example, has about a 10,000 page contract with the company that makes the software for their assembly lines? We all take a gamble with our businesses investing in retail software as the basis of our production. And since it is retail software we cannot have contract that specifies delivery of any given feature.

So that being the case his point is it is our obligation as business owners to have a back up plan, alternative software platform or exit strategy…which is true.
This release is proof of exactly that. If you cannot work with FCPX you better have had a back up plan or you are in big trouble.

And as far as moral obligation…well that is a pretty nebulous concept in business. And back to the lawyer’s point. This is business.

I hesitated posting his comments because I knew a lot of people would get wound up…but you cannot argue with the accuracy of what he said.

[Mike Petty]

I forgot to add his final comment (similar to your point)…”The only group Apple has any obligation to is their stockholders. Period”

Standard lawyer comment but, true.

[Mike Petty]

Really? The double entendre make fun of my name thing? Last time I got that was from some girl in Junior High School.

And then you go and precisely prove my point…

Whew.

[Mike Petty]

Indeed…

Now I can spend my leisure time perusing posts from the disgruntled editing mavens who (despite swearing they were abandoning FCP sooner than fast) are still hanging the the FCP boards grinding their apparently endless supply of axes bitching about how they have been SCREWED!!!

Not for nothing but if you are going to go to Adobe or Avid, Sierra Tango Foxtrot Uniform and go!

Aloha