I'm still wondering what this thread is
really about...
The question that was asked was
Why do you think that more film producers use apple computers?
But that is a very vague question to ask.
*** Do you mean "Why are Macintosh computers shown more on TV and Movies than PCs?"
If so, first you have to prove that is actually the case. I'd bet I can name as many movies with
PCs in computer scenes as Macs.
Independence Day: Macs
Wargames: PC
Sneakers: PC
The Net: ??? (Macs and PCs AFAIK)
James Bond Films: Varies per film
2001: None of the above.
Tron: Mainframes, but with a subtext towards gaming machines and consoles.
Most people (besides us) don't even notice what type of computer is being used, or even if the
way the computer works makes sense.
Which leads to the second point, you have to realize that most "computer" movies don't care
what kind of computer is being used; because they hire people to doctor the screens to match
what the scene calls for, instead of having to wait for the computer to actually do something itself.
The computer graphics in 2001 were created back at a time when there were no computer that
could generate such graphics, which is why they were all hand drawn.
Macs may have been seen in more shows recently because Apple is doing more product placement.
But I think you will find the actual distribution is fairly even for Macs vs PCs, with both types losing
out to futuristic hollywood ideas of how computers are supposed to work.
*** Or do you mean "Why does hollywood seem to use Macs more in post production work than PCs?"
That would be because Apple, knowing they could not compete straight out against all the PCs
manufacturers in the world, have long designed and marketed their products to appeal to specific
niche markets. Education, Entertainment, technophiles, and people who did not think they were
"smart" enough to figure out a PC. Apple could afford to be really good at a few things, instead
of being an everything to everyone platform like the PC has to be.
As an aside to that, they tried to encourage software companies to make the most of the platform to
support those markets. Which is why tools like Photoshop took off more on the Mac, and then got
migrated over to the PC. As Video editing is in many ways manipulation of lots of small images, the
same technology that made Photoshop such a hit could carry over into tools like Premeire. Apple
then learned from Adobe, and focused on the Entertainment industry as a group that could afford to
pay more for high quality tools on an already familiar platform. Even with that, there is still a lot of
non-Mac computer usage in the film industry.
Even without direct competition from Wintel, Apple still had to beat out all the Silicon Graphics
workstations to Amiga VideoToasters in use to prove thier value.
Even Pixar did most of thier rendering work in the past on PCs in a linux cluster farm, until recently
when they announced they were switching over to G5 servers to do that work.