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> requirements in its EULA that seem designed to protect its hardware business above all else

To get this you have to understand Apple's business model. They sell style, quality, and exclusivity, and ease of use. They can't ensure those things if they separate the hardware from the software. I'm sure they would love to make money from software licenses without the hardware. But it would end up creating new problems that would dilute the value of their product.

The proof is in the pudding. They're the most valuable company in the world because of their limitations, not despite them.

Doing video editing full-time over remote desktop must be painful. Perhaps a 20% productivity hit from that decision alone?

Kinda surprised professional video editing software hasn't been designed with this exact use case in mind - ie. A worker running local software doing editing, but then a remote server with tens of Tbytes of storage and high power GPU's.

The software would do standard definition and basic rendering fast locally, and simultaneously request the 8k data be rendered remotely and downloaded so a full fidelity preview can be seen after a few seconds.

Oh yeah, this is completely true. It would be a shoebox that barely ran Windows 98 and it wouldn't make much difference, and Apple's tools have completely failed to keep pace with this reality.

Actual Title: Severed Edits

>...please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

>Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

  <title>Why Apple’s Severance Gets Edited Over Remote Desktop Software</title>

  <h1>Severed Edits</h1>