Pros vs. Joes Welcome to the New World Order

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Hello All,
I have been using Final Cut Express for several years and have really enjoyed that program.  I always wanted to step up to FCP, but as I'm not a professional editor I couldn't really spend that kind of money on something that is just a hobby.
Every now and again I would go into the FCP forums to ask a question and I always felt like I was an outsider.  It felt like I had walked into an "old boys club" with lots of expensive wood and 100 dollar cigars. 
When I first heard of FCPX and the incredible price of 299.00 almost the first thought that came to my mind was, "there were going to be tons of noobs logging onto the FCP forum asking a lot of "dumb" questions.  I wondered how all those "pros" were going to like having their "club house" invaded by lots of people who were not pros.  I think part of what is going on here is a back lash.
Having said that, for all you pros out there I feel your pain.  If you are making a living off of Final Cut software then this cannot be a very good experience. Certainly not a magical experience.  For me, FCPX has a lot of really fantastic features that make it much, much easier than what I am use to in FCE.  But even for me it is missing some important features (I can only imagine what this feels like for someone who feeds their kids off the money they make with the old program).
I don't work for Apple, I don't get paid by Apple, I'm just a customer who has bought Apple products for over 20 years.  In all of this "storm over FCPX" I don't think you can forget that Apple is a great company.  Perhaps one of the greatest U.S. corporations in history.  However, even the great ones make mistakes. The program isn't a mistake (it's incredible).  It's how the roll out was handled.  I would not have named the program Final Cut Pro X (because it is not).  I think this one factor has lead to most of the problem.  If you had called this program anything else it couldn't help but have hit a major home run.
Last, you can't turn your back on a professional community that has stood by you through thick and thin, even if it wasn't your intention to do so.  Steve Jobs is a great communicator, perhaps one of the best.
Right now Apple's silence is saying all the wrong things.
Mike

Answer 1

I agree, apple is a great company, but what Apple is doing any time recently  isn't really acceptable anymore.
- delivering something like Final Cut X as "PRO" is .. there is no word for it! shaming? Mike, you say, they just named it wrong, why should they? Apple delivered a iMovie pro as Final Cut Pro, and it was intended so. They wouldn't have deleted FCStudio and FCExpress if it was so...
- Killing XServe and everything that has to do with Sever ("Final Cut Pro X Sever" haha) just because the "users don't give em Feedback" is ridiculous...
- Just focusing on "Noobware" like iOS and making everything so easy that even my dead grandmother could use it but forgetting people like me, who know how to use a more difficult system and who WANT this and  that setting or feature.
- and finally: I liked Apple, I loved it and always was proud of what and how easy i could do something compared to friends with PCs, but there is nothing to be "proud" of anymore. Apple isn't updating there programs. Aperture, Final cut Studio, Logic, all Apps that cost a few hundred € but Apple is only focused on developing "completely new Bull$**t" (FCPX) instead of focussing on improving the already so awesome apps.
This may seem a bit overreacted, indeed it is supposed to be so, to show where everything will go if apple isn't changing the direction their heading to…
Greetings
Ronny