My beef with APPLE
You read that right. I’m venting a bit with Apple Inc [fromerly Apple Computer].
In my never ending quest to understand just for what I started this blog, this rant takes the tone of what one finds on many a blog: The reflexive rant. I have something on my mind that bothers me, no immediate audience to share it with, and no other reason to commit such annoyances to paper. So,
This is the problem: I’m moving into more advanced DVD production for the school. So I moved up to the application DVD Studio Pro. For those unfamiliar, “Moving up” is geek jargon for installing the application on a computer.
INSTALLING, of course, is 21st century jargon for a long apprenticeship with a craftsman, followed by application to a guild, (all followed by a life of work interspersed with bouts of procreation and illness, ending around the age of 46), ah, the quaint Middle Ages…
The problem in moving up to a new application is the quite steep learning curve. Unfortuantely, APPLE always prepares its manuals with the idea that someone wanders into a store and picks up a $5300 video editing suite.
Naturally, all tech companies do this. But I just get so sick of turning to the chapter on “Importing SD 60i frame-rate footage” and seeing sentences like this.
“DVD Studio Pro allows you to import SD 60i frame-rate footage.
