[Scott Gosling]

Indeed. I already have an iPad, and therefore have no desire to turn my Macbook Pros into one of them. Its clear to me that apple released final cut X with the intention of ignoring any support issues with FCP for Lion. Despite the pointless gushing on the Internet, it will be sometime before I make the move to Lion, or the Final Cut X, which I believe is a glorified version of Final Cut Express.

I bought a state of the art 17″ MBP this year, and then had to fight the Sata III compatibility issues until about 2 weeks ago. The Apple support strategy was “its not one of our drives, and therefore we don’t support it.” This was the response for a user replaceable SSD hard drive. The whole issue made it clear to me that Apple has lousy QA, and has a low regard for its customers. This mentality nearly killed them the first time, and if they are not careful, could take them out for real this time.

After developing software for over 20 years, I’ve been burned too many times to jump on the newest shiny thing out there. I think everyone should hold back for quite a while before making the switch. With the forced AppStore download I think Apple is going to be in for a real shock. That first million downloads in the first 24 hours is going to generate support queries that will overwhelm them. One thing is clear with the release of Lion, and that is Apple is going for a mobile device strategy, and they are going to abandon everything else.