It's kind of interesting how Adobe
approaches it's users (content producers) versus how Apple approaches
it's users (content producers).
A hundred or more of Adobe's engineers
have blogs to talk about/explain their respective approach: http://blogs.adobe.com/
The blogs are useful to some extent -
"we" can get some kind of insight of what is behind an Adobe
"move"; that, doesn't mean that Adobe can't be just as
deceptive as Apple or 5% as deceptive as Microsoft (and not put out
all the facts on a given issue).
Apple on the other hand likes to play
cloak and dagger games. And even give interesting messages. I
bough iLife 06 because I wanted to see how useful iWeb (versus
WordPress and other blogging software) would be to teach federal
government bureaucrats and NGOs workers to do their own web sites
and/or web pages.
I contacted Apple because it was not very
easy to do/manage more than one web site with iWeb 06. Apple's
response? iWeb was made for Grandma! So apparently with iWeb 08
one can easily produce/manage more than web site! So Grandma no longer
in the picture! Which is it?
So Grandma out of the picture in iWeb 08;
but in the picture for iMovie 08? Or is it all about selling more
Final Cut Express?
Don't forget the Apple eco-system that supports third parties.
In the case of iWeb, you have a nice step up in RapidWeaver before
diving into Dreamweaver. Like a career ladder, there should be
application ladders. Apple does a nice job of this in audio (GB
to Logic Express to Logic) and video as described here already but
where Apple chooses not to tread, third parties do well too.
In the video arena, we haven't talked about QuickTime Player Pro
as an editor when, in fact, is is. Without references such as
"QuickTime for the Web" you'd never know how to do many of
the cool things that QTPP can do which is a shame but, as they say,
it's a third party opportunity. Writing such a volume would, of
course, require pretty good access to QuickTime engineering
personnel and I'm not sure that would happen. The author of
"QuickTime for the Web" (Steve Gulie), an Apple employee,
had that kind of access.
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