I admit, I did skim over the "friendlification" detail in the original post. I guess my point is that Apple's does takes things that already exist, makes them ridiculously easy, but then takes the credit for the entire "artform" to begin with. With the influence they pull, people often blindly agree with those statements. (I was often told by teachers that I was outright lying when saying I edited/composited my project, or composed the music and mixed the audio on my PC.)
Now, while they did develop 1394, they didn't market it until quite a bit later... allowing others time to develop further and put the technology to use first. (in my case, Adobe and Radius for DV on my PC... both of whom used to be major Apple-focused developers, too, oddly). But the Radius DV card, and the simple Iomega Buz or Pinnacle cards before then weren't rocket science, they just didn't have the marketing $$ to fly to the forefront of the public eye.
Design, Digital Imaging, Video, Audio, Music... all of which are preached as being "made accessible" by Apple. To some extent, that is true, but it's more that those things are made accessible to people who didn't know they wanted to do those things until they saw the commercial and thought it was neat.
To folks who are actually musicians, video/audio editors, graphic designers, etc... the important thing is the end, not the means... and you don't really care what platform you're using so long as it works, allows you to express yourself... and is affordable. It's that last little caveat (and the inability to build my own, even if from standard Apple parts) that has always prevented me from switching over to Mac, despite the obviously better OS-X at its soul now.
Oh, come on... people have been working with digital video and audio on Amigas, PCs, yes, and Macs long before Apple came around with the "any idiot can be a director!" marketing.
I had both S-vid and 1394 inputs (plus SCSI and USB and SPDIF) reliably running on my a Win95/OSR2 machine around 1997, all on the budget of a film student.
I don't deny that this will really put a dent in Apple's business model, but as one who loves building my own machines, and have had more success with my homebuilts than any corporate-built box... the idea of an OS-X box I can spec and build myself (not to mention afford) is too good to be true.
A brilliant piece of satire, followed up by piles of angry feedback from the humor impaired that borders on self-parody... how beautiful is that?
Thank you, Slashdot. I have reached a new level of astonishment at how clueless your most vocal addicts are. Why not throw in some article about Microsoft and/or digital video now and close the circle?
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I admit, I did skim over the "friendlification" detail in the original post. I guess my point is that Apple's does takes things that already exist, makes them ridiculously easy, but then takes the credit for the entire "artform" to begin with. With the influence they pull, people often blindly agree with those statements. (I was often told by teachers that I was outright lying when saying I edited/composited my project, or composed the music and mixed the audio on my PC.)
Now, while they did develop 1394, they didn't market it until quite a bit later... allowing others time to develop further and put the technology to use first. (in my case, Adobe and Radius for DV on my PC... both of whom used to be major Apple-focused developers, too, oddly). But the Radius DV card, and the simple Iomega Buz or Pinnacle cards before then weren't rocket science, they just didn't have the marketing $$ to fly to the forefront of the public eye.
Design, Digital Imaging, Video, Audio, Music... all of which are preached as being "made accessible" by Apple. To some extent, that is true, but it's more that those things are made accessible to people who didn't know they wanted to do those things until they saw the commercial and thought it was neat.
To folks who are actually musicians, video/audio editors, graphic designers, etc... the important thing is the end, not the means... and you don't really care what platform you're using so long as it works, allows you to express yourself... and is affordable. It's that last little caveat (and the inability to build my own, even if from standard Apple parts) that has always prevented me from switching over to Mac, despite the obviously better OS-X at its soul now.
Oh, come on... people have been working with digital video and audio on Amigas, PCs, yes, and Macs long before Apple came around with the "any idiot can be a director!" marketing. I had both S-vid and 1394 inputs (plus SCSI and USB and SPDIF) reliably running on my a Win95/OSR2 machine around 1997, all on the budget of a film student. I don't deny that this will really put a dent in Apple's business model, but as one who loves building my own machines, and have had more success with my homebuilts than any corporate-built box... the idea of an OS-X box I can spec and build myself (not to mention afford) is too good to be true.
A brilliant piece of satire, followed up by piles of angry feedback from the humor impaired that borders on self-parody... how beautiful is that?
Thank you, Slashdot. I have reached a new level of astonishment at how clueless your most vocal addicts are. Why not throw in some article about Microsoft and/or digital video now and close the circle?