[John Perez] "If you want a single application that does everything then Smoke for Mac is the baby for you."
Ah, there's the rub. Who wants to pay for a Smoke today for a unified application? Is Smoke still $15,000 plus $2,000 for the maintenance agreement?
So in order to make some folks here happy, Apple is supposed to develop a more powerful, unified application that still costs $999 but performs like a $15,000 app.
See there's the problem I have with folks who complain about all the shortcomings with Final Cut Pro. We know what the shortcomings are, we know how to work around them, we know which tools to use to offset those shortcomings. And we still don't come close to $17,000 per computer for software to make this happen.
Creating a more tightly unified suite will cost far less than creating one, bloated "super app." Unless everyone here is ready to pony up $10,000 or more for the new Apple Super Duper Final Cut Studio.
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