OSX turning more and more into iOS
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- Miguex0
While I agree with clearthoughts, on the fact that Apple is not targeting 'professionals' anymore. Uan makes a good point.
These days, 'everyone' is a 'professional' like it or not.
Everyone has photoshop on their computer, if you are in california and you go to a coffee shop with wi-fi you will see that almost no one has a pc computer. it's insane.Everything is at reach, we all make movies, we all make flyers, we all make websites, so it makes sense for apple to want to focus on targeting the average facebook user.
lets give them tools to do a flyer, we don't care if he is good at it or not, as long as they buy our products.
- monospaced0
Because I don't think the App Store is going to define software deployment—because I am not in favor of sandboxing—you think I'm a fanboy? Get over yourself.
- monospaced0
@clearThoughts
I totally see why you might say this, but there are tons of developers that are not cool with the "sandboxing" in the App store and refuse to distribute through it. Examples of this that we all know are Adobe apps that use APIs that would never allow Creative Suite to get approved. I don't see the App store taking over, it would just piss off too many people, but I do see it as a way to get "safe" software to the masses much easier.
- instrmntl0
iPad is a consumer product, where you can only interact and buy but can't truly create, where as a laptop is a professional tool.
- instrmntl0
update ur apps everyday..awesome!
- clearThoughts0
If it carries on like this though. ALL software would have to go through iTunes unless you jailbreak your Apple device.
- there's no indication of thatmonospaced
- sorry, not iTunes but the App StoreclearThoughts
- app store is a great distribution ecosystem for developers. it's a good thing.uan
- um, no, the app store is communismspot13
- App store is a quagmire unless you are a top 25 app in your category.ETM
- clearThoughts0
Yeah, sorry for the rant.
But anybody tried the new Final Cut Pro?
- Horp0
I think the latter is more likely. Apple were the niche minority company who sold precious few machines to the precious few talented creative practitioners.
Then they thought it through, and made the machines the enablers of creativity for all. Now everyone can do it, its not worth shit, and nobody in their right mind would think about creating a specialised machine 'just for the creatives'. That would like coming up with a special handkerchief just for people who sneeze.
- true. maybe we were just early adopters.clearThoughts
- Yea that would just like that, it's true.set
- uan0
like remember the days you had to be a pro to make a dropshadow in photoshop? it's the way things go...
- So true. I remember blowing people's minds in ad agencies with shit little techniques that can be done on an iphone nowHorp
- by downloading a free app.Horp
- Like make a movieclearThoughts
- clearThoughts
I find the whole way everything is an App now in OS X a bit annoying.
Furthermore the way they turned Final Cut Pro into a higher-end version of iMovie shows where Apple wants to position itself.
If it continues like this there will be a huge gap to create a new platform for professionals.
Or maybe they will be no more Creative Professionals and the entire world would be making films on iMovie, designing on Keynote and photographing on iPhone doing postproduction on Instagram.