Apple Shoots Itself in Its Foot
I mentioned in yesterday’s blog the problems some folks are reporting with Final Cut Pro 4 if QuickTime 6.4 is installed. I learned today that there is an even bigger impact of this bug than I had first thought. Apple’s new operating system, Panther (OS 10.3), installs QuickTime 6.4. One FCP user reported that Apple support advised him not to install Panther because of this problem.
I intend to follow that advice.
That does not mean I won’t buy Panther when it is released Friday night. I will. I’m going to install it on my PowerMac Dual 1 Ghz G4 and on my iBook to see how it runs. But I won’t install it on my video editing PowerMac until I become convinced I am either not suffering from the QT 6.4 problems (and some FCP 4 users are not) or there is a fix that others are reporting works.
More importantly, Apple really cannot afford to have Panther bomb in the graphics and video communities, two of its biggest supporters. Some changes in Panther apparently play havoc with some Photoshop installations. Add to that QT/FCP problems, and Panther suddenly starts looking like it might be more pain than it’s worth. It’s like stumbling over the doorstep and crashing into your date’s head with your own. Bad first impressions are sometimes dreadfully hard to overcome, no matter how undeserved they really may be.
Apple needs to improve both its hardware and software quality control; or no matter how loyal past users have been, they’ll move on to somewhere else.
I intend to follow that advice.
That does not mean I won’t buy Panther when it is released Friday night. I will. I’m going to install it on my PowerMac Dual 1 Ghz G4 and on my iBook to see how it runs. But I won’t install it on my video editing PowerMac until I become convinced I am either not suffering from the QT 6.4 problems (and some FCP 4 users are not) or there is a fix that others are reporting works.
More importantly, Apple really cannot afford to have Panther bomb in the graphics and video communities, two of its biggest supporters. Some changes in Panther apparently play havoc with some Photoshop installations. Add to that QT/FCP problems, and Panther suddenly starts looking like it might be more pain than it’s worth. It’s like stumbling over the doorstep and crashing into your date’s head with your own. Bad first impressions are sometimes dreadfully hard to overcome, no matter how undeserved they really may be.
Apple needs to improve both its hardware and software quality control; or no matter how loyal past users have been, they’ll move on to somewhere else.
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