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What a tool. It's a shame this made it to Techmeme. He really had to twist the facts to make his point. Here's what he didn't say: ZDNet 2001 (Dec 2001) Articl
by radley 17y ago
What a tool. It's a shame this made it to Techmeme. He really had to twist the facts to make his point. Here's what he didn't say:
ZDNet 2001 (Dec 2001)
Article is actually Adobe: OS X's new best friend?
"Analysts and creative professionals say that Adobe's release of products for OS X could be the most significant turning point in the new operating system's adoption."
"Developers privately complained of stability issues with the original release of OS X, saying that these problems hampered their efforts to move their products to the new operating system. That finally changed in September, when Apple issued the Mac OS X 10.1 update."
A slice from 2002
Article is from March '02: OSX 10.2.1 was established as default OS on Macs only 3 months prior!
What he left out: "Adobe is actively working to add support for the full version of Acrobat 5.0 running in OS X native mode."
"Adobe currently plans to offer native support for OS X in the next major release of After Effects." etc.
CNet 2004
"At the same time, Apple has quietly pushed Adobe out of a few markets by selling its own applications or bundling them into its OS X operating system. "
John Nack, 2006 (Feb '06)
No Intel OS X updated Adobe apps till 07 "Ever since Apple's Intel announcement last summer, they've told the industry (at least the consumer side) that Intel Macs would appear by summer 2006."
Wikipedia: "On January 10, 2006, the new MacBook Pro and iMac became the first Apple computers to use Intel's Core Duo CPU. By August 7, 2006 Apple had transitioned the entire Mac product line to Intel chips, over 1 year sooner than announced."
- mtarnovan 17y agoHe has a point, although the way he arrives at the conclusion is flawed. Adobe made a rational business decision at a time when nobody could have predicted the Apple renascence. This decision might cost them dearly now, but that doesn't mean that given the facts known at that time, they should have made a different one.
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