I haven't seen Alex Lindsay in ages here. How's he doing? Any plans for him to show up in Office Hours Global again in the future?
ASKED BY · Ignacio · MADRID, SPAIN · 24 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:30:40
Non-disclosure agreements from Apple prevent public appearance or discussion of work; this explains his absence though he remains in good health and high spirits.
Alex Lindsay took a non-public-facing role as partnership manager for Creative Pro 3 ecosystem at Apple; he appears occasionally in Swell sessions in the Office Hours Discord airship-studio channel but cannot be in public-facing media due to NDA.
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30:39I haven't seen Alex Lindsay in ages here. How's he doing? Any plans for him to show up in Office Hours Global again in the future? And that was submitted through the QR code. All right, Guy, you've talked to Alex. I mean, he's obviously in Scots and Cupertino. Yeah. So for those of you that don't know, he did take a position that's pretty non-public facing. So he's kind of dipped behind the scenes for now. So he's the partnership manager for Creative Pro 3 ecosystem at Apple. And so it's not really a role where he's going to be out in the limelight like he used to be.
31:18so will he come back? that's a good question, you can catch him in the Swell sessions in the Office Hours Discord we have a studio that we partner up with and you'll see some of the community members operating cameras and I've seen Alex behind the scenes so if you go into our Discord it is this one right here called airship-studio and you'll see
31:46John Nichols usually, Rocket it, we'll post a, and this is coming up, so subscribe to this channel if you want to catch up with him. He'll be in there, and what he does is he usually is the guy either running a camera, or you'll see him helping direct with Marcia via comms, and we'll pipe those comms into this meeting, and you can hear what's going on, and you can hear the, not only hear the calls, but you can
32:10can pull the feeds from each camera down. And if you have Zoom ISO or MIMA Live or vMix or any of the other tools you can that can grab onto those feeds, I'd love for him to come back. I'm kind of holding this space here. It's been amazing to see since January how the community has just stepped up and kept this thing going.
32:32So I'm like, let's just make it a beautiful thing. And if he comes back, he comes back. If he doesn't, then we just carry on and we keep doing our shows and learning new things. I mean, I'm proud of like what Ronnie's done with the website and things are just still moving forward and we're holding that space and we wish him the best. But I've talked to him on the phone
32:50and he is doing well. So if you're concerned about his health or any of that stuff, he seems to be in high spirits. There we go. Got my mic on. All right, Courtney. Courtney? Yeah. And as someone who has previously worked under nondisclosure agreements for the big Apple company, and it's passed the statute of limitations, so now I can speak about it.
33:17But this was back in the 80s, the 90s, and slightly into the 2000s. I know having to sign those 12 and 22-page nondisclosure agreements on every project I worked on for them. So I know that you cannot speak publicly. You can't even tell people you're working on something from that company. So you have to be very mysterious. So I understand his absence, and especially if he's in a position that is non-public facing.
33:46He's not allowed to go in any public, you know, distributed media and speak anything about what he's doing, where he is, how he's doing, etc., etc., etc., or why he's doing it. So I understand, but we hope someday he'll return. But he's been abducted by the big spaceship in Cupertino. Yeah, we wish him the best. All right, let's move on, Courtney. What do we got?
34:13Rajan Chandil in Los Angeles says, is anyone else having issues with VIMO billing or extra charges? And he has a link to a story there. Ronnie? Yeah, so Vimeo has been Vimeo for ages and some of us have been using those services for ages. A couple of years back, we kind of reduced our amount of services with Vimeo because we hit those limits, which are kind of pretty hard. And they are lower than you would expect if
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