![]() ![]() Wether this is good or bad only time will tell, but MicroSoft trying to avoid having a killer app on the Mac is a fact that all of us who had to deal with Avid sales in the 90's have clearly seen. ![]() Maybe Avid didn't want to drop the Mac, but MicroSoft did! When plenty of Avid editors who switched from analog/moviola and learned the computer on Avid-Mac complained loud about the dropping of the Mac, the platform they had grown with, Avid eventually stepped back, but it was too late: Apple didn't cooperate as it used to and came out with its own editor, in the meanwhile educational institutions remained with the Mac and no new Avid editors were trained at a school level moreover, the availability of an affordable NLE (or even worst: free on the mule, and it wasn't free by mistake AFAIB) made it possible for plenty of new would be editors to step into the market, eventually causing a huge drop in the wages of us all. ![]() Avid never intended to "drop" Mac from its operational lineupI disagree with that, when MicroSoft bought enough Avid's stocks to influence the Company's policy they did indeed try to pull this killer application off the Mac platform I was there and have seen it all: Avid's salespeople trying to push customers to buy PC based Avids because "the application is written for the PC and runs better on it", or "yes You can have it on a Mac but You'll have to wait for delivery longer than a PC" and such.
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