Re: Oscar irony

[Herb Sevush] "Until you can transmit a potato or a couch over the internet truckers will be in high demand, cause even a couch potato can't eat a picture of a pizza. The US mail may be in trouble but the teamsters are doing fine. And while your software is internet downloadable your iphone, ipad and ibook are not.
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Herb, I agree with this.

But one UPS driver can probably service 100 homes a day - thousands in a year.So the folks living in all this other homes have to find something else to do once that single "driver" slot is filled.

And all the hands that used to fill up my FCP-Legacy boxes supply chain have less to do now that the App Store is working.

I'm not saying this is best, or ideal, or not an issue that society has to confront. I'm saying it's simply a reality that wasn't present before. Local store to national chain to big box specialist to warehouse club - the need for physical distribution of stuff will persist until someone perfects the "replicator" model from Star Trek or puts some uber-CNC-product assembly micro-plant in your local mall.

But not to see the change that the App Store has thrust upon us is to ignore reality, IMO.

That an alternate process is not "perfect" is not the same as saying it's "irrelevant."

Hey, good point about FCP-X to bring us back on topic!

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