Re: Why does Panic and Paranoia Rule some "Pros"?

As far as I can tell, most of the panic has not been about what Apple has done, but about what people have decided it implies about Apple's motivations, and therefore Apple's future actions. Essentially, people have convinced themselves that Apple no longer cares about high-end users, and will not deliver software suitable for them in the future.

Many people are now simply treating this as an established fact, but the evidence for it is fairly weak, and every new release of information seems to undermine it further. Humans are, however, extremely prone to fitting the data to the model, when they should be doing the reverse. There's also a well-documented phenomenon where people are much less likely to change their positions based on new information if they've previously stated those positions publicly. Someone is probably going to have to cut a studio feature on FCP X before some folks can be convinced to change their minds at this point.

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