I'm not a good troll because I'm an accidental troll. I posted this here by accident and am personally apologizing to each respondent. I meant to cite this post in response to another and accidentally did the opposite making me seem like a non-sequitur asshole. Sorry.

You're statement makes a lot of assumptions about the scale and process of a post-house. Video houses are not a borg and different kinds of productions have different needs. If you're a broadcast studio ingesting and rendering hours of HD footage every day the software and hardware costs could pail in comparison to your staffing and workflow management costs.

If you're a smaller business it makes a BIG FREAKING DEAL how much you're spending on software/hardware overhead. Saving 80K annually on hardware/software could be the difference between hiring another two freelancers to actually get the work done on time and therefore stay in business.

The main factor I'm aware of in the migration away from Final Cut systems is lack of support (they've pretty much stopped updating it) and cost of maintenance/storage.

With Final Cut Pro it takes 4 Apple servers to create a decent HD asset storage array because they've pretty much completely stopped caring that their professional workflow suggestions are laughable on their face. 4 Servers not including the storage medium! WTF?

Who said anything about a boycott?

I also stated above that I meant this to go on a different thread (a response in an older one) but i screwed it it up.

Sorry again. I'm embarrassed.

The quote about Intel delaying is in TFA but it didn't make sense as it also said the delay was in 2010.

I also accidentally submitted this both before I was done writing it and to the wrong thread so I deserve the troll rating.

Sorry!

So Intel is delaying USB 3.0 support so that Apple fanbois can transfer Apple DRM media to their mobile devices faster? Does anyone else see this as part of a move to cut the PC out of the Apple device loop? That what it looks like to me...and good riddance. I'd rather have a fucking Zune.

Can somebody help me figure out what business Apple is even in anymore? It's like they're now half a console producer (think XBOX live for apps and media) and half a tech-hipster "me get shiny thing first" club with personal and professional computing peeking out of a smaller and smaller hole.

Case in point- I also know quite a few video editors loyal to Final Cut that are now looking to move to Adobe Premiere (because it costs a third to operate over FC at this point - this includes the video department company where I work).

That's another alienated group of classic Apple users who are moving away from the platform.

It's a miracle!

You got voted down because anyone who has migrated iTunes knows that even Apple's prescribed procedure screws your shit up. You can't even easily retain play counts and star ratings without a ridiculous process.

Media Monkey however works exactly the same every time I've installed it...and even allows me to transfer my cache so I don't have to rebuild it. Fancy that!

I didn't say that universally giving more choices to users increases your user base as that would be a stupid strategy (or not a strategy at all). I'm saying that adding support for things just because they're "better" doesn't mean it extends your user base. Giving choices to people based on what they're most likely to encounter is a much better strategy. That's why Real Player support is still out there for example. We're actually both stating the same idea, just differently...and perhaps I'm not saying as well as you which is likely.

Nope. Not a single one exists in that context except the one I mentioned per that context. But nice try.

In comparison to what? I'd like to see a metric for how you qualify "impacting users the least."

I misguidedly adopted iTunes many years ago and continue to be bitten in the ass over it again and again. How many times have you had to migrate your iTunes library to a new machine and then get it all working with your iPhone without losing any apps or media? How much of your media collection is embargoed because of Apple DRM? How much of your media metadata do you need to reapply after a fresh migration? I've had a new machine migration take 6 hours for all of my files and apps and then 10 hours of re-doing media tasks that iTunes screwed up. These are just a few of the well-known issues that pop up for any users of popular Apple devices and/or software

I agree that they're great at squeezing revenue from every possible source but claiming they do this while "impacting their users the least" makes no sense. Do you even use their products because you sound like you don't or are in denial of the realities of being a regular Apple customer.

PS - I'm also involved in a corporate relationship with them and the mealy-mouthed BS from their corporate staff about their non-existent "enterprise" services is even worse than consumer sales and support.

You are projecting your ideology onto others troll. If you actually thought about the issue from from a business perspective you'd realize that whether or not the technology is inferior is largely irrelevant to the issue at hand. It's about giving choices to users that better position you to capture as many more users as possible. If this was a job interview for a bizdev or related position you would have been shown the door in the first 5 mins.

If you think Jullian Assange stole all the glory from someone who's been locked up in solitary for 7 months you're just stupid. I don't usually do Ad Hominem but in this case it seemed warranted. How much money have you donated to Manning's defense fund? How many letters have you written to your congress-critter about it? Now do some research about what Jullian and Wikileaks have done for Manning and I'm sure you'll see that your comment, while well meaning, is just stupid.

Do you honestly think you know enough about how major newspapers/publishing orgs operate to claim that they don't use information as leverage against competitors, it's readers or even sources?

I think your comment shows you don't know the first thing.

I'll give you an example: "Snow expected this weekend, stay tuned after this commercial break to find out how much and how it will effect your weekend plans."

So the news network is willing to let you die in a snowy car crash just so that you'll watch the next set of ads. Assange defends himself from the threat of extra-legal assassination and he's an evil monster!

Welcome to the Kool-Aid you just drank.

Who are you people who keep repeating this crap? If you spent less time commenting and more time actually reading you might actually have something to say.

Here. I'll do the work for you.