Final Cut, yeah I guess it's apple's fault for giving editors a heads up to familiarize themselves with a completely different way to edit. Honestly, it was partly apple's fault, but the same time, editors are FOOLS if they switch over to a 1.0 release and expect to do pro work on it.
The truth is, 1. apple is not holding you at gunpoint to update. 2. If your lively hood depends on it, it's common sense to not update on 1.0 releases. 3. Don't depend on a company that can't update their product when they have 4 years to do it.
Edit: If you want, you buy something, get it setup just the way you and get it work just fine, then freeze everything. That's all it takes. No updates. Problem solved for most of you here worry and complaining about how apple after 2 os revisions obsoletes your hardware. You hardware works just fine w/ the os it came with, the software you were using when you bought it, and the follow 1-2 OS updates. Come on people, you're asking for the moon + some. "I'm so pissed the computer I bought w/ windows 2000nt can't run w7, wtf ms???"
1) Editors are fools to switch over to a 1.0 release and expect it to work? In your first paragraph, you're making excuses for something Apple shouldn't have done. Period. Everybody has seen the insane backlash Apple received for what they did.
No matter how strongly you support them, you just can't make excuses for something like that. They did it purely to grab a larger profit margin and appeal to more customers. To them, it's great. To us, it's a slap in the face.
2) You're right, nobody is telling you to invest in the ecosystem, buy applications, or update. However, nobody is arguing against that either. What he's trying to say is that it doesn't make sense to want to work with somebody then be restricted the way Apple does.
They have a specific model in which they want to keep people spending: keep people up to date on their newest stuff. Why do you think, and I have never experienced this with ANYTHING else, people buy a NEW MACHINE every year? A new freaking computer, and it's the same damn kind?
Apple creates and markets their material to make you want to buy it. Over and over and over again, even though the one you have is already more powerful than what you need. Doesn't matter; each new model has a gimmick, if you will, that entices people to buy. If you have a 2010 MBP and you upgraded to the 2011 and you don't do heavy tasks, you wasted your money. Simple as that. All you got with the 2011 is a lower grade graphics card and a SNB processor.
Wifi cards are a little better as well but if you aren't taking wifi from another router 100 feet away, then that's negligible
Sometimes they have a legitimate upgrade like the Air; backlit keyboard and the SNB processors really made a difference as the performance is now on par with last gen's MBPs and the old C2D chips were pathetic.
3) The argument is about a new consumer buying machines for his business and these points you are going against are VALID. Period. This isn't about Apple and their want to continue down the line, it isn't about how "you" feel in relation to another in terms of WHY they do what they do, it's about letting the OP know that Apple does NOT care about outside software when a new year rolls around.
They don't. You can argue all you want that they do, and that you can just "deal with it", but at the end of the day, when the OP makes that final decision, he needs to know things like this.
