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Originally Posted by bhartman36
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.... 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. |
Uh, no.
"I wrote my review from the perspective of an advanced amateur; I’m not a professional editor.... I found FCP X infinitely more powerful than iMovie, yet infinitely less intimidating than the old Final Cut."
He writes reviews for amateurs, not professionals. When you blast him for having a different perspective than the pros, ultimately you're failing to recognize that he's just
doing his job. It's like slagging Jon Stewart for being glib and snarky when he reads the news; it's not because he's a bad news anchor, it's because
he is a comedian who is lampooning the news.
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Originally Posted by bhartman
How is a review that compares an iPad to a device not even remotely in the same device class not pro-Apple?
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There was one, count it one, specific comparison to the iPad in his review -- basically to point out that the new Nook doesn't scroll and doesn't have multitouch.
That's it. It's hardly a crime to point out that the Nook won't scroll like almost every other computer device we're accustomed to, including on (like it or not) one of the leading options for reading ebooks.
The rest of the review offers a
positive opinion of the Nook and Kobo, and is loaded with compliments.
The very fact that you're taking umbrage at what amounts to the most trivial mention of an Apple product in the review, and treating a positive review of the Nook & Kobo as proof positive of Pogue's bias, merely deepens the display of your own bias.