I Don't Hate Computers. I Hate Apple.
Published May 25, 2026 · 4:35 · 10,912 views
About This Video
Van's 26-year grudge against Apple, distilled into four and a half minutes of filmmaker fury. The thesis: Apple builds ever more complicated software requiring ever more complicated hardware that self-destructs in an unreasonably short duration of time. That's not a side effect. It's the business model.
The specific trigger is Final Cut Pro's compound clip behavior. Change one compound clip and it changes every instance across every project on the drive. Van's been editing on Apple since his first iMac in 2000, held hostage by a 13-year archive of Final Cut Pro projects. The dream, stated plainly: that AI and Nvidia will do to Apple what digital did to Kodak.
This clip is drawn from Using AI to Live More Analog: Long-Form Ep. 1, the channel's first flagship-format episode.
Transcript
For the closing credits of Tom Sax's space program, now available on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber, we made this beautiful machine that scrolled a sheet of seamless paper with all the credits handwritten out in white out penned. And at the end of the credits, if you watch them all the way through, you'll see this. It says edited on Final Cut 10.
[__] you, Apple for making our lives a living hell. This movie was written with the Pentel P209.
Apple used to be cool. They made the first consumer computers where you didn't need to write code. They stole the idea from Xerox. But fine, kids like me who think in pictures could use computers. I bought my first iMac in 2000. It was the birth of my video making hobby. Eventually, it became my career. I've edited with iMacs ever since.
And what I've learned that Apple is, what they do is they're a company that makes ever more complicated software that requires ever more complicated hardware that self-destructs in an unreasonably short duration of time.
That's what they do. I've been using Apple computers for 44 years and every day something is broken within their OS. They've been making digital video editing software for 27 years. We've been editing movies since the 19th century and yet Final Cut Pro is still broken.
I'll give one example to the 11 of you who still use Final Cut Pro because why would you use it unless you're being held for ransom by a 13-year archive of Final Cut Pro projects.
So, for those masochists like me who still use it, I'm not even sure if this is a bug or if this is just Apple think different. But when I make a change to a compound clip, if I've used that compound clip anywhere else in that project or in any other project, the change I make to one of the compound clips is made to all of them. Even compound clips in different projects.
The opening title card of this video is a compound clip. And if I were to change that compound clip, it would change all of the compound clips, all of the opening titles on all of the movies that are on this hard drive. It's like if you were to change a word in this book, it would also change in this book. Dozens and dozens of these bugs designs.
Well, in the new update of Final Cut Pro, which you just have to get the new update, download the new update. It doesn't work on your machine. You buy a new machine and it has some different version of broken for 26 years. This is what Apple Inc. does. This is what Apple Inc. is designed to do. And this is how you become the second richest company on planet Earth by holding your loyalists hostage with the promise of unbreaking yourself.
And how do you become the first richest company in the world, Nvidia? Well, as far as I'm concerned, it's by breaking Apple's paradigm. Every time I have a problem with these garbage machines, I pray and bask in the glory of the possibility that the AI revolution will eat Apple and [__] out Kodak.
Ever heard of Kodak? When was the last time you bought yourself a Kodak product? So, I think that that's what this episode is about. The dream of the death of Apple. I used to think I hated computers. I don't think I hate computers. I hate Apple. Apple is the nightmare.
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Products & Tools Mentioned
- Apple negative — primary subject — planned obsolescence, broken software, hostage ecosystem
- Final Cut Pro negative — editing software Van has used for 13+ years, compound clip bug detailed
- iMac historical — first iMac purchased in 2000, launched video career
- Nvidia positive — "first richest company in the world," breaking Apple's paradigm
- Pentel P209 essential — used to handwrite credits for A Space Program
- Kino Lorber mentions — distributes A Space Program Blu-ray
- Kodak cautionary — used as example of company disrupted into irrelevance
- Xerox mentions — Apple stole GUI concept from Xerox
- Wispr Flow sponsor — paid promotion tag in video
People Referenced
Tom Sachs