The elimination of Final Cut Studio and Server...

As a high-end FCServer user (40+ users) and huge purchaser of Apple products, I'm not happy with the recent move by Apple.
In the past week alone, I have received at least five furious calls (lasting about 1 hour each!) from major Apple customers.To leave advertisers and the media (the very industries that give Apple so much press and attention), high-and-dry, was a really bad move. Even if the numbers of keeping the products didn't make complete sense, they should be continued. I know of massive broadcast and post installations that now have to scramble. We'll be fine for a few years - I immediately purchased dozens of FCP Studio 3 licenses to "ride the storm."
I really think Apple should make a statement.

In spanish:
Apple ha eliminado FCSvr, Color y FCStudio sin ninguna consideración hacia los usuarios profesionales. Ahora la cuestión clave es decidir: ¿hay que dejar todo lo que hemos construido durante años e iniciar un nuevo camino?
Detrás de cada actualización de software & hardware se mueve un interés económico por vender nuevos equipos, y con cada renovación de equipos (que realizamos cuando ellos nos dictan) seguimos sepultando Africa bajo nuestra basura.
Creo que es momento de replantearse la ansiedad tecnológica de estar a la última, porque nos está convirtiendo en esclavos de las empresas tecnológicas, que sacan sus productos con cuentagotas para que sigamos comprando año tras año.
En el caso concreto de Apple, FCPX, Thunderbolt, Lion y otras tantas novedades harán que mis equipos estén obsoletos en menos de un año.
Durante muchos años he renovado religiosamente mis equipos al dictado de Apple, y Apple ha sido como una novia a la que le he aguantado muchas cosas sin rechistar, pero como en toda relación llega un momento en que hay que decir BASTA, y hoy ha llegado ese momento porque Apple, simplemente, ha eliminado mis herramientas básicas de trabajo.
Después de varias semanas de debate interno, he decidido 'plantarme' aquí, con mi FCSvr en Snow Leopard funcionando perfectamente. Si Lion o cualquier actualización futura no acepta el programa, no me actualizaré. Si el año que viene llegan nuevos productos y no son compatibles con mis estaciones de trabajo actuales, no me actualizaré.
¿Cuánto tiempo podré seguir trabajando con mi equipamiento actual sin quedarme obsoleto? Me da francamente igual, y además creo que lo que hay que revisar es el concepto de 'obsoleto'... Hace 10 años editaba programas de TV en calidad 'uncompressed' en un G4 con una tarjeta Digital Voodoo y FCP... y aquello, aunque tampoco era perfecto, hacía bien su trabajo.

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