>Since you are not a user of FCP
Look to the right at the list of top forum helpers. I beg to differ that I am not "a user of FCP."
>you are not aware that when Apple "upgraded" it to work in Intel,
Back in version 5.1...yup, I know when they did that.
>they made significantly negative decisions about which features to include.
Not one thing changed when they went from 5.0 to 5.1...other than 5.1 was now Installable on an intel machine. What they DIDN'T do until FCP 7 (Studio 3) was make the INSTALLER intel native. Which is really friggin' odd.
>The editing community is in an uproar about this decision and we are all waiting to see if the "iOSification" of Mac OS X continues to mean that computers have just become a "hobby" for Apple.
Ohh...you are talking about FCP-X? That wasn't when they "upgraded it to work on Intel." That, as I said, was done YEARS before with FCP 5.1. FCP has been intel based for a long time, since Macs have been intel based for a long time.