Apple's Response to the Final Cut Pro X Release

His post seems a bit optimistic to me. Re-adding a bunch of features removed from a software product (presumably for some reason -- a huge underlying architecture change?) is a much more difficult thing to come up with a timeline for than the relatively minor changes made for his other examples were.

Apple may respond to the outcry against Final Cut Pro X, but I doubt it'll do much in the way of making promises of exactly what features will be back and exactly when.

If there are such important features then why are they missing? Makes me wonder why companies do not track "feature use"? Something like a report that gets phoned home once and a while with what features users are actually using.

Final Cut Pro 7 is still available as a floppy disk install.

I could see them releasing a migration tool. Maybe it wouldn't support everything, forcing you to render some clips, but it would be better than nothing.