All those questions are reasonable. Apple should really put out official word on these issues as soon as possible.
I'm pretty sure Final Cut 7 will work on Lion. I haven't tested but I don't see why it shouldn't.
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All those questions are reasonable. Apple should really put out official word on these issues as soon as possible.
I'm pretty sure Final Cut 7 will work on Lion. I haven't tested but I don't see why it shouldn't.
This is good and bad.
First, when you have a polarized response like that, it is in fact a good thing. You have to keep in mind, any aesthetic driven product, epically for the Apple crowd, there is a small minority that would kill the artists / inventors and burn down their buildings if the could due to their own insecurity if they could get away with it.
Second, when I see no middle ground in ratings, I start to ignore the over-vocal wieners posting from their break rooms and parent's basements. One app I wrote was like that and the cash still comes in from it.
Nelson and Arbatron have internal methods of identifying psychotics to keep those over-vocal and irrelevant comments from affecting positive comments. Apple and the American Political System still needs to learn how to do this.
Apple also deleted reviews. Sure does help out potential buyers ....
LOL, they really did. Omg this is getting actually fun now.
I smell something odd here. First, Apple has more than one store in Paris - so "the Apple store" is suspect. Even accounting for that faux pas, which Apple store in Paris is at a train station with 3 hours between trains?
Not likely the Louvre or the Opéra - since no long distance trains depart from either of those stations.
Web searches for "apple store paris" don't show me any stores near the Gare du Nord, Gare de Lyon or other long distance stations....
ps: don't try to bluff, I can almost make my way through the Gare de Lyon with my eyes closed.
Sorry for the confusion. I was at the Louvre store. And the train doesn't depart from Louvre, but the train station is 4 subway stations away from Louvre, so instead of waiting in the station I waited in Apple Store, they had free wifi and didn't mind me sitting in there.
Thanks for reminding me that there's the Opera store, I never visited that one, my next visit I should check that out.
So can I. But a tip for the next time. Don't type "don't try to bluff, I can almost make my way through the Gare de Lyon with my eyes closed." before the other party actually says anything about the name of the Gare. If I was lying, you just gave me the hint on which Gare I should look at on google.
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I just noticed the same. Crazy.
Right now, it's 266 1-star reviews, 554 total. But you can't actually read anything.
de rien...
But even with the hint, I think you messed up. The Musée du Louvre Métro station is the sixth stop from the Gare de Lyon.
At least according to Yahoo! and the Paris Métro maps. Maybe this "google" thing is broken.
HAH they removed comments in the UK and US market. Reviews are for the community! Especially when they come from people who have paid for the product.
How can they just take this down? If you paid the $300 you get to have your own voice heard to warn others. I've seen the app on one of my coworkers computers and he can't even open his FCP7 projects.
Theres a import imovie project but not FCP. What a joke. Continue the trend apple of leaving pro/business users in the dark. First it was ignoring mac os x / macbook pro / mac pro development. Now it's completely getting rid of Xserve and soon to be OS X server.
If they aren't up for continuing proper development of FCP sell it off to someone who will.
How can they just take this down? If you paid the $300 you get to have your own voice heard to warn others. I've seen the app on one of my coworkers computers and he can't even open his FCP7 projects.
Theres a import imovie project but not FCP. What a joke. Continue the trend apple of leaving pro/business users in the dark. First it was ignoring mac os x / macbook pro / mac pro development. Now it's completely getting rid of Xserve and soon to be OS X server.
If they aren't up for continuing proper development of FCP sell it off to someone who will.
Possible that I misremembered, can be 6. But that's not really messing up. I'm not supposed to know the Paris subway by hard, since I don't live in Paris. I could have simply checked in wikipedia if I wanted to make sure.
Seriously - Apple are censoring comments from people making honest criticisms of the software?
The MAS is not only a walled garden with high walls, but the Ministry of Information deletes any honest criticism of the garden.
Adobe must be loving this - more Premiere customers every day.
Looks like the reviews are back up. Hope it was an honest technical error of some sort. They should know that editing reviews will only make this worse.
If a shop already has Adobe or Avid workflows, it's likely that they'll choose whatever is more familiar to most of their people.
If they're FCP-only and are moving on, Premiere has the "bang-for-the-buck" unless you have some really high-end requirements.
Adobe must be loving this....
If a shop is FCP-only then they're likely to have high end requirements because they didn't go with the cheaper Premiere to begin with. So they'd switch to Avid.
Anyway, my actual prediction is that this won't really lose many customers to Apple. Most people will wait and see what happens and keep using FCP 7 in the mean time. For the few who switched out of FCP, there'll be slightly more who switched to FCP. So the userbase should stay around the same. Whether or not getting few people tomorrow would either make AVID or Adobe happy, I don't know. But in the long term, I think FCP X will end up stealing a lot of people off Avid and Premiere. So what really matters is where things will go.
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Again, the woefully misinformed crying foul for not being adult enough to do their homework. It is exactly the point. Steve isn't putting a gun to anybody's head to buy the product. And no one put a gun to anyone else's head to do the research to see how this would affect their business plans, time, and money. It's called taking responsibility and being adult enough to look past the hype and make informed decisions. If something is touted as the best thing since sliced bread, and it isn't sliced bread, guess what? It's not.
Opinions aren't Mixed
All the reviews on the App Store about this app has been deleted. ALL !!!
How about reporting some truth about Apple that matters instead of all this paparazzi BS with COoke in China.
And iOS here and there.
A company that wants us to take their store seriously offering us the uppertunity to give reviews but cripples us by deleting
them when they dont pass apple's SS-NAZI censorship.
What a bad day as Apple user.
And what a sad day for MacRumors who are nothing but a bunch of paid APple Fan Gals !!!!!
All the reviews on the App Store about this app has been deleted. ALL !!!
How about reporting some truth about Apple that matters instead of all this paparazzi BS with COoke in China.
And iOS here and there.
A company that wants us to take their store seriously offering us the uppertunity to give reviews but cripples us by deleting
them when they dont pass apple's SS-NAZI censorship.
What a bad day as Apple user.
And what a sad day for MacRumors who are nothing but a bunch of paid APple Fan Gals !!!!!
Actually you missed your window to be dramatic, the reviews were put back 15 minutes ago.
Because it's usable for many people in this form and not usable for many others. The people who can use it can buy it today, and the ones who can't can switch or keep waiting for upgrades.
What's the point of waiting another year when you can release it today to people who'd actually make good use of it today?
As long as it's working and not buggy / unstable, it's ok.
What's wrong is how they marketed it. If they let everyone know about what's missing, then people wouldn't be complaining like this. As it seemed from this thread, many people simply bought it without waiting for reviews to come in, and were surprised on all the missing key elements, which quite reasonably made them furious.