Mplayerx logo on screen4/1/2023 ![]() ![]() The Mac App Store is about consumers, just like the iOS App Store. So, no, it doesn't matter if you can't install Eclipse, Mac Ports or various command-line tools on your Mac. It's about setting up an ecosystem of apps, music and video across your desktop, laptop, tablet and phone. It is a 100% consumer operating system, corporations be damned. Consumers consuming music/video ($1.571 billion, up 29 percent from $1.571 billion a year earlier.) and apps ($891 million, up 28 percent from $696 million a year earlier.) on their iPads ($9.17 billion, up 52 percent from $6.046 billion a year earlier.), iPod Touches ($1.06 billion, down 20 percent from $1.325 billion a year earlier.) and iPhones ($16.425 billion, up 22 percent from $13.31 billion a year earlier.). To the point that professionals really don't matter to Apple's bottom line at all. The bottom line is that there is FAR more money to be made from consumers. And the number of 'professionals' in those numbers is smaller still. ( source ) The percentage of money Apple makes from desktops and laptops is getting progressively smaller each quarter. In one case (FCP 7 import), the 3rd party plugin/add-on is a whopping $10, and in the case of the other, more expensive one (AAF export), there is now a FREE solution.Īpple is making record profits ($35 billion last quarter) and only 14.2% of those profits ($1.287 billion) came from sales of Mac hardware last quarter (all desktops and laptops). ![]() However I believe ALL of them have been, or are currently being, addressed, either by Apple, or by others. That FCPX was anything but a professional tool seems to be the consensus.Īll of those were legitimate gripes. I don't know enough about video editing or the software to give a through critique - all I can do is report on the problems. Given that solutions to many of the missing features in FCPX include the use of third-party software, this kind of omission, well, makes the software somewhat less than professional. As I understand it, FCPX doesn't support OMF transfers which appears to be a common feature. Of course, "updating" your workflow isn't helpful if that workflow doesn't jive with your other applications. The inability to assign audio tracks I suppose is a workflow issue, though it doesn't appear that any sensible alternative is provided by the software. One particularly damning problem was the inability to import projects from the previous version of the software. The same goes for the lack of RED camera support, which is apparently quite popular with filmmakers. I'm not that familiar with video editing, but that doesn't sound like a workflow issue to me. ![]() One of the biggest complaints was the lack of multi-camera editing. This will probably be cause for a lot of people to abandon the mac platform, but I expect that the remaining userbase will be sufficiently large by that point in time that other developers will eventually be drawn to writing for the platform, attracted by the promise of what will seem to them, initially at least, to be a largely untapped market.Īnd what happened with iOS is going to happen again with MacOSX. Eventually, I expect that a critical mass will be reached (I predict about 2 years from now), and Apple will shut the door to external sales on the Mac outside of jailbroken devices forever. I would put forward that this conclusion is actually only true right now, but I expect over the coming years that is liable to change.Īs an increasing number of applications *DO* become available on the app store, I would suggest that a growing number of people are going to increasingly rely upon it. This usually works for them, but this time, theyâ(TM)ve made a critical strategic error: leaving is often a better option. Apple's stance seems to be pretty typical of them: comply with the new rules or leave. ![]()
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