Sure, that comment was intended to sting, but I think Apple has a pretty good sense of direction most of the time. The changes they're making like FCPX and a stronger consumer-slant on things isn't some random whim of Apple management.
They're probably looking at the big picture and the long-haul and asking a lot of tough questions about what sustains the company best -- and we're seeing their conclusions.
I know the "pros" out there never like comments like this, but I'm going to say it anyway: Some of you guys are slowly becoming dinosaurs. What Apple realizes is we're headed for a future where traditional media is losing relevancy. (EG. You can be a big-shot video producer or editor for a television network like MTV and right now, that still means something. But you know what? It means less than it did a decade ago, when everyone expected to watch a music video on TV to go with every new song they heard and liked. It will mean less still in another decade, when cable and satellite television are dead concepts, and the public simply gets a single high-speed internet connection into their home that serves all purposes. Costs will keep decreasing on "pro quality" video recording equipment, just like they did for audio recording, and people will produce their OWN high quality material that once required studios and specialists.)
In THAT future, you know who has the best business model? It's the company that provided tools that hobbyists can tinker with in their basement and get good, professional results with. I'm not saying some won't go on to become a new generation of "video professionals", but they're likely to use workflows more like what FCPX offers (assuming the product matures over the years too, which it should if it's not abandoned).
