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It might be interesting if Adobe were to discontinue selling their CS software on the Mac platform. Sure, it would hurt them short-term, but long-term Apple wou
by kylec 17y ago
It might be interesting if Adobe were to discontinue selling their CS software on the Mac platform. Sure, it would hurt them short-term, but long-term Apple would lose the mindshare that Macs are for artists, as Photoshop is the primary program that maintains that reputation.
- fierarul 17y agoThe thing is Adobe is a corporate with standard management that would never be able to "think" of something like this. They have no "soul" (corporate culture) nor anybody with sufficient power and vision to at least try something like this. What would be smart of them would be to increase the prices on Mac products as to make them much less desirable compared to the PC variant. This would slowly drive users towards PCs. I know a lot of designers that bought Macs precisely to run Adobe software. So if they make it even more expensive perhaps designers will start using Windows variants some more. Then again, once you get used to the Apple way of pricing things, Adobe's move might seem natural and business will go on as usual.
- Keyframe 17y ago"but long-term Apple would lose the mindshare that Macs are for artists" That already happened in CG/3D space, mainly thanks to Autodesk. Mac is starting to lose ground on editing as well due to AVID getting better for smaller shops. I can see it happen in graphics design area soon also.