It may be realistic and fair but the reality is that as a facility it makes it very difficult to maintain compatibility with existing infrastructure. Avid has always understood the market place they exist in and acted accordingly with backwards compatibility, even when it wasn't to their advantage. The bigger issue is those that often make the decisions about which tools to use have no clue about the underlying shortcomings of moving in an Adobe direction.
If I buy into the Adobe ecosystem it means I will always be on the most current system in order to be compatible with the known world. That has and I assume will wreak havoc on existing infrastructures that can not switch OS version all the time. For Adobe not to invest in the R&D to check for backwards OS compatibility is very unprofessional. Even if they don't do the R&D at least allow me to install on an older OS giving me a warning it may be a problem. The fact that I won't be able to open the latest Premiere project from on offsite stand alone editor is a real problem. At least let me install that version and see if it works. That's part of the price of admission to being in the broadcast sector again IMHO.
I guess it depends on how you view realistic and fair. Is it fair to expect the customer to deal with all the issues that happen when changing OS's just to use Adobe products? Traditionally manufactures for the broadcast industry have understood the importance of this. Of course Apple and now Adobe have been exceptions over the years but it's just not a pretty picture IMHO.
---In avid-l2@yahoogroups.com, <cutandcover@...> wrote :
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 11:03 AM, bigfish@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:Not to mention that Adobe will start only working on El Cap if things go like they have so if you want to be able to open up a Premiere or AE project you'll have to be on El Cap just like I recently had to create a 10.9 startup drive to access CC 2015 thereby screwing up any chance of unity connection manager working for our legacy medianet 5's. It's not just planned obsolescence it's a completely unworkable land of force migrations creating forced incompatibilities. It's starting to make me want to go back to the PC symphony although that landscape seems to be changing all the time these days too.
I'd appreciate hearing if my feeling of the PC side of software being better in this regard. My gut says this is true but I've been so mac centric at work my PC chops aren't particularly current.
---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <tcurren@...> wrote :Welcome to the new paradigm. :-("Bouke needs a new MBP, which comes with El Capitan. They are not doing him a favor, they are screwing him over."
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