OSX turning more and more into iOS
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- chossy0
I don't agree inteliboy, Final cut pro 7 was and still is an excellent editing program. Marred only by incredibly poor stability.
The only complaints I have toward Apple are their lack of respect for the user. Which is borne by their releases of incredibly under performing applications. Which people seem to suck up with a smile.
- monospaced0
I just hope Apple doesn't go too far with this. I got a little worried when the desktop trackpad came out with multi-touch gestures and an option to buy it instead of a mouse. At first I thought it was pure gimmick, but realize it's handy for navigating around the finder. But, my worry that the Finder was getting too iOS-like is still here. Creative professionals not only need a mouse, they need a precision one to get precision work done. Every step Apple makes in this direction worries me.
Gone are the days of buying a mid-line tower and making it last forever with upgrades. I've given up my dream of a plain old Mac computer (something between the iMac/Mac mini and a Mac Pro) that strikes a balance between the all-in-one closed thing and the pro features us creatives really need.
- I use my old G5 PPC for watching movies on my tv.instrmntl
- Cool, but where are the affordable towers now? There are way easier ways to watch movies (Apple TV).monospaced
- apple is ditching the creative professionals. :(pango
- i_was0
- hahaha, gayapps.i_was
- exactlyclearThoughts
- designed for apple by Benjamin FranklinmonNom
- approved by Steve Jobsmonospaced
- clearThoughts0
Steve Jobs would have shot however designed that version of iCal in front of everybody to teach them a lesson
- that version of ical came out before job's deathdijitaq
- He was preoccupied.mathinc
- hahahahaha, I didn't want to say it lest someone call me a fanboy, but yeah, most of this was Steve's doingmonospaced
- 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
- 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
- clearThoughts0
Yeah, sorry for the rant.
But anybody tried the new Final Cut Pro?
- 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
- instrmntl0
update ur apps everyday..awesome!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- tOki0
^ True, but I think we all know that just because you have the software is by no means an indication that you are good at using it let alone does it make you talented. Which is why we as creative professionals have to constantly highlight that very gap that makes us the masters, and they the amateurs. It is a combination of learnt/applied knowledge, technical prowess and pure imagination that is the key.
The tool is there to make your life easier, and is really just an extension of your brain/creative ability - so as long as you're smarter and more agile in this sense than the "masses" you'll be fine. Technology in it's relentless march forwards has for thousands of years made different skills and jobs redundant, but human ingenuity to solve problems has always been a prized attribute and will continue to be so (until we invent an AI that causes our very own extinction).
- DrBombay0
Lots of video professionals are going PC and Adobe Premiere. If the tools are only available on PC who cares what the hipster jags think. It's just a tool.
- I care, the operating system is part of the tool, even if photoshop is the same. I do agree is just a tool, but I want to like using itMiguex
- to like using it. I get frustrated with windows, cause I'm not used to it. My girl has a pc, and I can't even install word on itMiguex
- Haaaaaa! Avid maybe, but not PC.ArmandoEstrada
- True enough, but many are moving to PC, even if you don't agree.DrBombay
- Honestly, the Mac Pro hardware is almost 2 years old. If you are building a production dept. doesn't instill much confidence.DrBombay
- confidence.DrBombay
- If you can't install word on a pc, you should be kept away from sharp objects.DrBombay
- ;)DrBombay
- You're mom's just a tool.
;)monospaced - I know...DrBombay
- fadein110
looks like a default HTML table - hideous.
- animatedgif0
@clearThoughts... actually he chose the shade of leather.
- ESKEMA0
Apple always targeted the little people, the everyday joe. They started that by making the first affordable PC. Their root objective was to bring technology to the masses and not just for a niche of rich or savvy people. Along the way, creatives adopted their tools for being easy and affordable (compared to high-end production tools). People started doing movies, art and design etc, with basically just a mac. That's what they do. They bring complex and expensive tools to the masses. They always did this and always will. The problem is we, the creatives that adopted their tools, are now needing more powerful ones, but if you think about what the actual average person can do with FCPX for 300$ and compare that to what you could do in 2002 with FCP for 1000$ you'll see a huge jump. They never were a professional focused company, the professionals were the ones who focused on Apple. As I see it, we're the ones who changed, not Apple.