Apple is falling
You folks don't get it, do you? Since OSX 10.4 Apple has not released a single feature oriented towards professionals. All of the company focus was towards 'eye candy' and iToys. Professionals started to move away from Apple, me included. This move creates an opposite effects of what we, the visuals, film and audio folks created years ago. Every respectable professional had an Apple machine, and Apple had a good name because of it. I can't count the number of people asking me 'what windows is this'? No, it's OS9, or OSX, and the computer it's an Apple, a PROFESSIONAL GRADE MACHINE - i responded. Now, all i can say is: 'it's useless and outdated'. All a company have it's is name. When you show the finger to artists, graphic designers, compositors, Final Cut users and list continues then your name is going to get hurt. And when this happens, nothing will bring it back. No one will invest in a machine without knowing if it's going to be a next release(mac 'pro', what a piece of joke). Professionals moving away from Apple, means Apple has no longer an army of advocates and PR man in the most influential positions. Now, the low end iMac costs in Europe the equivalent of 2000$ . And this is for a machine without OD(yes, business still use it), upgrade RAM, audio input output, Firewire etc. The politics of Apple 'screw professionals' hits them back in the face. My 2 cents. This is what happens when you ignore your hard core users..... But maybe this will awake them before it gets too late.