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The Uselessness of iLife?
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<blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 463515" data-attributes="member: 9385"><p>Number a) The applications you listed as being better values for the job that they do are very unlikely to be used and/or grasped by the average owner of a Mac. I use Photoshop CS3 for editing my images, and work with the invidual files on the Mac filesystem with either finder, or with the command line. For audio work I use Audacity. I, however, am not the average user. I spent quite a lot of time with Photoshop and it took me quite awhile before I even got close to doing useful things with it.</p><p></p><p>Number b) you would be amazed (I certainly am) at the number of people who cannot (or refuse to) grasp the concept of moving/copying/dragging/dropping files around places. This is one of the reasons people like iTunes as opposed to having a digital audio player which utilizes the filesystem and dragging/dropping. My mother had an audio player which showed up on her desktop when she plugged it in. I tried to explain to her the concept of taking a bunch of her music files over here; then dragging them over to the music player icon. She didn't get it. She's a smart woman, it was just very difficult for her to visualize the concept. I got her an iPod, showed her how iTunes works, and she was able to get music on her player. The integrated concept of 'iTunes owns all of the music files' on a computer works for her, and it's the same concepts for most of the iApps. iPhoto handles your pictures, iWeb makes your web page go, iDVD makes it so you can make consumer-dvd-player DVDs from your videos, and iMovie allowes you to make these movies. </p><p></p><p>I don't use most of them much like you. Though I did make a couple of little movies with iMovie, and it was remarkably easy, but video editing isn't something I do a lot. For the vast majority of Mac users, however, they'll be perfectly happy to let iPhoto, iTunes, etc. do the grunt work of managing their digital 'stuff' without having the overhead of bothering with such esoterica as where they are physically located on the disk. Therefore, the iLife apps do have value.</p><p></p><p>To the 'power user' they don't but then we go out and seek out the applications that are going to work for us, and have the knowledge necessary to use them. The iLife suite removes quite a bit of the need for such knowledge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="walkerj, post: 463515, member: 9385"] Number a) The applications you listed as being better values for the job that they do are very unlikely to be used and/or grasped by the average owner of a Mac. I use Photoshop CS3 for editing my images, and work with the invidual files on the Mac filesystem with either finder, or with the command line. For audio work I use Audacity. I, however, am not the average user. I spent quite a lot of time with Photoshop and it took me quite awhile before I even got close to doing useful things with it. Number b) you would be amazed (I certainly am) at the number of people who cannot (or refuse to) grasp the concept of moving/copying/dragging/dropping files around places. This is one of the reasons people like iTunes as opposed to having a digital audio player which utilizes the filesystem and dragging/dropping. My mother had an audio player which showed up on her desktop when she plugged it in. I tried to explain to her the concept of taking a bunch of her music files over here; then dragging them over to the music player icon. She didn't get it. She's a smart woman, it was just very difficult for her to visualize the concept. I got her an iPod, showed her how iTunes works, and she was able to get music on her player. The integrated concept of 'iTunes owns all of the music files' on a computer works for her, and it's the same concepts for most of the iApps. iPhoto handles your pictures, iWeb makes your web page go, iDVD makes it so you can make consumer-dvd-player DVDs from your videos, and iMovie allowes you to make these movies. I don't use most of them much like you. Though I did make a couple of little movies with iMovie, and it was remarkably easy, but video editing isn't something I do a lot. For the vast majority of Mac users, however, they'll be perfectly happy to let iPhoto, iTunes, etc. do the grunt work of managing their digital 'stuff' without having the overhead of bothering with such esoterica as where they are physically located on the disk. Therefore, the iLife apps do have value. To the 'power user' they don't but then we go out and seek out the applications that are going to work for us, and have the knowledge necessary to use them. The iLife suite removes quite a bit of the need for such knowledge. [/QUOTE]
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