Comment Re:clones are bad (Score 1) 533
I admit, I did skim over the "friendlification" detail in the original post. I guess my point is that Apple's does takes things that already exist, makes them ridiculously easy, but then takes the credit for the entire "artform" to begin with. With the influence they pull, people often blindly agree with those statements. (I was often told by teachers that I was outright lying when saying I edited/composited my project, or composed the music and mixed the audio on my PC.)
Now, while they did develop 1394, they didn't market it until quite a bit later... allowing others time to develop further and put the technology to use first. (in my case, Adobe and Radius for DV on my PC... both of whom used to be major Apple-focused developers, too, oddly). But the Radius DV card, and the simple Iomega Buz or Pinnacle cards before then weren't rocket science, they just didn't have the marketing $$ to fly to the forefront of the public eye.
Design, Digital Imaging, Video, Audio, Music... all of which are preached as being "made accessible" by Apple. To some extent, that is true, but it's more that those things are made accessible to people who didn't know they wanted to do those things until they saw the commercial and thought it was neat.
To folks who are actually musicians, video/audio editors, graphic designers, etc... the important thing is the end, not the means... and you don't really care what platform you're using so long as it works, allows you to express yourself... and is affordable. It's that last little caveat (and the inability to build my own, even if from standard Apple parts) that has always prevented me from switching over to Mac, despite the obviously better OS-X at its soul now.
Now, while they did develop 1394, they didn't market it until quite a bit later... allowing others time to develop further and put the technology to use first. (in my case, Adobe and Radius for DV on my PC... both of whom used to be major Apple-focused developers, too, oddly). But the Radius DV card, and the simple Iomega Buz or Pinnacle cards before then weren't rocket science, they just didn't have the marketing $$ to fly to the forefront of the public eye.
Design, Digital Imaging, Video, Audio, Music... all of which are preached as being "made accessible" by Apple. To some extent, that is true, but it's more that those things are made accessible to people who didn't know they wanted to do those things until they saw the commercial and thought it was neat.
To folks who are actually musicians, video/audio editors, graphic designers, etc... the important thing is the end, not the means... and you don't really care what platform you're using so long as it works, allows you to express yourself... and is affordable. It's that last little caveat (and the inability to build my own, even if from standard Apple parts) that has always prevented me from switching over to Mac, despite the obviously better OS-X at its soul now.
