The Release is Now Officially a "Debacle"

As reported by CNN/Money

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/22/the-final-cut-pro-x-debacle/

"Since the early 2000s," according to itsWikipedia entry, "Final Cut Pro began to develop a large and expanding user base, mainly video hobbyists and independent filmmakers." By 2008, according to a surveypublished by the American Cinema Editors Guild, more than one in five members had abandoned Avid's (AVID) Media Composer and were doing their post-production work on Final Cut Pro.

Which makes what Apple (AAPL) did with the new version released Tuesday such a mystery."

Not, I think, the play Apple was perhaps hoping for.