Anton Linecker at Macworld sheds some light on some of the Apple's recent buying spree. In the last couple of months, Apple has bought Silicon Color's Final Touch, the real time, high-end color correction tool. And Proximity, a company specializing in broadcast-level asset management. Linecker believes that both these softwares will address some of Final Cut Studio's shortcomings -- high-end color correction tool and media management. This would be fantastic.

In 2002, a similar spending spree led to Shake, Logic, LiveType, SoundTrack (& Garageband). It is exciting to imagine what comes out of the latest spree. How these tools will be integrated? At what price for the Studio users? And whether Apple is finished with its Holiday shopping?