Re: Thank you Apple - and don't change course. Please

[Scott Sheriff] "What the heck? As long as you have what you want, who cares about the rest of us? Right?"

Scott, I agree with most of what you are saying, but frankly, I've just given up. X is what it is and making the demand that it be something else seems fruitless.

After all the NAB news this year, I've decided to stop comparing X to FCS. They unfortunately share a name, but thats ALL they have in common. I believe it was a poor decision on Apple's part to kill FCS. I still use it nearly every day, and frankly it was a b!tch to start retooling again, but I'm on that path now, so 'uk 'em. There are really great choices that tower over X for the kind of work I do, and a fortunate side effect of the killing of FCS is that these choices are much more affordable. So, nasty problems, but a wee bit of win-win, as well.

X is this interesting $300-400 program that I'm intrigued by, but not particularly crazy about. Some of its thinking is kind of cool, but a lot of it seems muddled by its own glitzy training wheels. It is unsuitable for my professional use, and there is nothing to lead me to believe that it ever will be. I don't believe that Apple is working in that direction. X is not a valid replacement for FCP 7, but in my world all the people who need to know that, pretty much know that now.

When people call X revolutionary, I think that's a bit delusional, but I've also been trying to recognize that it has its uses for many people. I think Carsten's right--that it shouldn't change course. Mostly I think this because its too late. It is what it is now. And, I guess, after a year--for me--that's just a big "Oh, well."