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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Y'know, I don't have any particular use or care for Pogue; I find him to be somewhat irritating and his reviews aren't usually relevant to my uses.
That said, the "Pogue is an Apple Fanboy" comments crack me up. When people accuse Pogue of bias, they end up displaying their own bias.
For example, in the FC Pro review, he spends the first 1/3 of the review saying that "yet again, Apple has eviscerated one of its apps," much as they did with iMovie in 2008. He says that pros will "grind their teeth" over the changes, and added a brief list of features that were pulled out. But Pogue is not writing a review for pros, nor should anyone expect that from him at this point; he's writing a review for Joe Average who wants to edit video of his family and post it on Youtube.
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You'd have an excellent point about Pogue writing the review from a Joe User point of view, if the primary market for FCP was Joe User. Unfortunately, it's not. They've got iMovie for that. Final Cut Pro is supposed to be a professional product. And professionals are
not happy about it. There was such a furor over the column I linked to that Pogue felt obligated to post
another column explaining things from Apple's point of view.
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
In contrast, the CNN article isn't a review, it's a report of objections by professionals to the changes. Nothing in one article refutes the other. They are written by, for and about different FCP user bases.
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Actually, the article on CNN was a summary of the irate user reviews, which were newsworthy particularly
because they were so abysmal.
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
And of course, the article that kicked all this off is NOT pro-Apple, wildly anti-B&N or anti-Kobo. In fact it's rather complimentary to both.
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How is a review that compares an iPad to a device not even
remotely in the same device class
not pro-Apple?