Can anyone at Apple please explain why I need to download these giant updates all the time? I presume in SF this is just a couple of seconds but here in the boonies it is a few hours of download. This is also a HUGE environmental issue which just seems to be swept under the carpet.
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Original Title: Another giant FCPX download
Every update is the complete application, which steadily get larger.
Yes I know that - I've been an Apple developer since the early eighties. What I'd like to know is why. Many years ago at WWDC Apple touted it's new frameworks for incremental updates or some such PR speak. It's not rocket science but at last they'd cracked the ability to patch an existing codebase instead of re-uploading the entire thing. What happened? Where did it go? Why on earth, in this day and age, are we still downloading these ridiculous files when 99% of what we're downloading is unchanged? I also remember when Apple had an "eco" slant to their evangelising, that seems to have faded from sight as well.
If only Apple would listen to developers Ian I might still be a certified developer but alas they don't and I'm not. This is addressed on here in the vain hope that someone at Apple might peruse these forums every now and then and, if so, might take note. A vain hope I know, but what else can one do?
Remember that you don't need to download every new version.
You can miss out those with bug fixes so long as they don't affect you and only update when a new version has something you really need.
There are some effect creators on this forum who are using ancient versions of FCP successfully.
One think I would NOT call FCP updates, is "frequent." Absolutely not...
I download FCP updates for a local church, who is on very basic home Internet, and even then, over WiFi (not the best, trust me). Only takes about 10 minuets for FCP to update. I've never seen "hours" to update any app. Is someone still on dial-up Internet service? Sorry, I don't buy that it takes "hours." And I'm a retired IT engineer.
We are as mystified as you because we are just ordinary users.
You need to contact Apple directly by sending feedback from FCP.
As Ian said use feedback in the FCP application, or Feedback Assistant if you have it.
Why are Final Cut Pro X updates so big and frequent?
