No Country for Old Tech

Gas Station Guy: I didn't put nothin' up.
Anton Chigurh: Yes, you did. You've been putting it up your whole life you just didn't know it. You know what app is on this iPad?
Gas Station Guy: No.
Anton Chigurh: The Multi-Touch Color Correction app - Gradiest. It's been traveling 22 months to get here. And now it's here. And it's either good or bad. And you have to say. Call it.
Gas Station Guy: Look, I need to know what I stand to win.
Anton Chigurh: Everything.
Gas Station Guy: How's that?
Anton Chigurh: You stand to win everything. Call it. 


 The big announcements at NAB last week was just another reminder of how the only constant in tech is change. The new MacBook Pro that was just released is in some instances 3x faster than the MacBook Pro I just bought in the Fall of 09.  CS5 will not run on my old G5 Quad - heck, even the last version of After Effects won't run on it.  But even the first generation Mac Pros can not (or at least it is recommended that they not) run Smoke on Mac.  iPhone 3G and earlier will not be able to take advantage of the new multi-tasking feature in the iPhone 4.0 software release.  And only iPhones that record video (the 3GS model) can take advantage of the new relatively robust video editor that is coming out called VeriCorder.  As for all those people that do not as of yet have an iPad (myself included) - our day of reckoning is coming.  There's an app somewhere in development right now that has our name on it.  I might be able to resist the color-correction app Gradiest or the iPad teleprompter rig but how much longer am I going to be able to hold out? 


Wendell: It's a mess, ain't it, sheriff?
Ed Tom Bell: If it ain't, it'll do till the mess gets here.