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Re:Apple Reports Second Quarter Results by dmitriid on Thursday April 29, 2021 @02:46AM (#26978121)
> 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.

Re:Apple Reports Second Quarter Results by dangus on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:49AM (#26981868)
Final 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.

Re:Apple Reports Second Quarter Results by dmitriid on Thursday April 29, 2021 @04:33PM (#26986346)
They 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.