• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          No, I don’t care to hold your hand and explain to you the whole idea of an industry preferring you have a specific piece of technology over others and how finding out you have that piece of technology helps you get work. You’ll have to figure that one out for yourself.

            • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
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              2 months ago

              Let me introduce you to a little thing called media production workflow, where there are over 500 different file formats in active use, and getting it right forms the basis of most links in a chain hundreds of links long.

              You start sending me botched files with the wrong codecs and see if I don’t find another subcontractor immediately.

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              2 months ago

              Well you clearly know my industry better than I do, so I’ll defer to your expert knowledge.

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                1 month ago

                Are we just talking about Final Cut Pro here? Theres a pretty short list of applications that don’t work on linux or windows well.

                Do you just mean its easier to get a job if you have a Mac?

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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                  1 month ago

                  The latter, yes. If you go to a meeting and don’t have a MBP, they’re going to think you don’t know what you’re doing half the time. And if you have a MBP for remote work, you might as well have an iMac or a Mac Pro to do work with at home too.

                  I’m out of the industry now and my MBP died, so I’m running Mint on a Thinkpad. And when this iMac dies, I’ll probably do something similar.

                  But if you are in the industry and show up to a meeting with a Thinkpad (or any other non-Mac), they’re often going to think you’re an amateur.

                  Is it fair? No. But them’s the breaks.

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                    1 month ago

                    I think you are essentially saying using Apple on average will make you more money, but I would say that money isnt always the most important thing.

                    Plenty of people choose to make less money than they know they could with other means, for a variety of reasons.

                    The question is whether there is room at all for that group of people in your industry in the US?