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Apple created and dominated the desktop publishing area for a decade before there was such a thing as Linux. I know plenty of places full of Windows PC's that
by bayareaguy 19y ago
Apple created and dominated the desktop publishing area for a decade before there was such a thing as Linux. I know plenty of places full of Windows PC's that bought Macs to run PageMaker.
Apple's use of Postscript in their popular LaserWriter made a market for Adobe same way IBM's use of DOS made a market for Microsoft.
For more recent examples, I'd look to graphics and multimedia editing applications (e.g. Avid, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, etc).
- Tichy 19y agoWould be interesting to know if Apple is gaining grounds in businesses or for private use. Most things you mention seem to be strictly for professional use. It's too bad that there is no Photoshop for Linux, but if people wouldn't pirate Photoshop, I doubt it would be as common as it seems to be now. Gimp does just fine for private use, though. Most businesses I know might give a Mac to their designers, but the rest of the pack has to live with PCs. Also, since you mention those "old" killer apps, apparently they were not killer apps enough to gain the Mac a significant marketshare a few years ago. So I question their deadliness.
- bayareaguy 19y agoYes, "killer" in this context has an entirely different meaning.
- evgen 19y agoAs a counter-example, I have watched the entire "command-line or death" development group at my company move from linux desktops and laptops to macbook pros over the past year. Linux desktops still survive, but as peripheral machines under desks that are not being replaced when they die or the hardware becomes too slow. The only people clinging to PCs are sales and marketing people who live and die in Outlook. As others have mentioned, the killer app for the Mac at the moment is being a unix box that "just works" and lets people get back to coding.