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> I think it's highly developer and power user focused, representing a very small percentage of Mac owners. A very important percentage. E.g. Final Cut used to
by dmitriid 6y ago
> I think it's highly developer and power user focused, representing a very small percentage of Mac owners.
A very important percentage. E.g. Final Cut used to have a 60% market share. Now it's may be 25%?
There's most likely a dip among every other category of professional users.
- dangus 6y agoFinal Cut is a very old product (1998). The entire market for digital editing has expanded greatly since then. We don't know because Apple doesn't report it, but I would surmise that Final Cut has had a consistently growing user base.
- dmitriid 6y agoThey lost most of the market for two reasons: - Final Cut X was a major re-write that didn't support importing old project formats for something like two years and didn't support all required video formats for the same period - Mac Pro was abandoned, twice. Once for years before the trashcan design. Once for years after the trashcan design.