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And driving all your customers in design, media, print, video, music etc into the arms of Microsoft? Or were they intending to pay to port Photoshop, Word, and
by iuygthjkllkjnh 16y ago
And driving all your customers in design, media, print, video, music etc into the arms of Microsoft?
Or were they intending to pay to port Photoshop, Word, and a bunch of video and music editing apps to ARM?
- happybuy 16y agoApple didn't pay Adobe or Microsoft to port any of their apps from PowerPC to x86, and yet it happened. So I don't see why they would pay them to port from x86 to ARM. They'd either port and retain a large part of their market, or don't and leave an opening for competitors to take their customers.
- iuygthjkllkjnh 16y agoApple hadn't at that time just pissed Adobe off by banning flash, and MSFT didn't see Apple as a threat.
- jinushaun 16y agoThanks to the millions of Apple-loving creative types in the design industry, Adobe makes way too much money on the Mac to abandon it as a platform.
- jinushaun 16y agoJust like with the PowerPC to x86 conversion, Apple will have an emulation layer when they ultimately add ARM support to OS X. It was all seamless to end users. Photoshop et al ran under emulation for years before they eventually made native apps. I wouldn't be surprised if Lion contained ARM support courtesy of iOS. The "Back to the Mac" theme hinted at that.