NO MORE ADOBE ON MAC
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- trobutta0
So essentially the only reason to own a Mac now is so you can continue to "look awesome"
- jco0
the link to the article was dated march of 04. i read something similiar in my home town paper's buisness section at least a year before that. i think this is reported from time to time. for crying out loud people are still circulating the 'bill gates' gives away money' emails.
- pascii0
i change to open source software
- laurus0
Actually, Apple did not develop Final Cut, Macromedia did and Apple bought it from them when adobe failed to support the DV format for way too long.
- pascii0
and it's a shae that the brand macromedia shouldn't exist anymore : (
- rabattski0
"...it costs a lot less to produce for linux than it does mac or windows..."
*cough* osx is *nix based.
although i never ever would see that happen i wouldn't be afraid about it to start with since tools are tools and you can still work with the older versions and there will always be alternatives.
- boiconet0
Fact is until someone invents a PC that looks good both on screen and outside the screen, Designers won't touch em. Adobe know that, even if they don't like it. Mac vs. PC - yawn!
- ribit0
does anyone know the Windows/Mac market share for Adobe products? Last I heard 50% of their market is Mac.. (lots of Windows users out there are not using, or buying, Photoshop) Anyone have recent figures?
- -_MU_-0
I've had some personal dealings with Adobe. They will do whatever they think will serve them best in the market place - as a business should. True say macromedia apps run like shit on the mac, so maybe thats what is meant. I mean, cn you REALLY see a mac platform with no photoshop (barring apple developing a competeing product)? I can't.
- jaybee0
who's arsed, use pc anyway
- 5timuli0
That's the door closed on an update to Fontographer then :(
- rabattski0
there are plenty of alternatives for fontographer, even better ones.
- plugindesign0
As a freelancer, I work on the mac, all my clients do (since most my work is outsourced from other design studios), my printing company use macs.
I wouid prefer to go back to pencil and paper than go back to the PC.
- ********0
Fact is until someone invents a PC that looks good both on screen and outside the screen, Designers won't touch em. Adobe know that, even if they don't like it. Mac vs. PC - yawn!
boiconet
(Apr 20 05, 00:47)?
I'm a designer and I'm not paying for a god-damn Mac. I'll keep my £500 PC that does everything your Mac does thanks.
- Monk0
Stop the crazy talk! It's not Friday yet.
- boiconet0
I'm a designer and I'm not paying for a god-damn Mac. I'll keep my £500 PC that does everything your Mac does thanks.
determinedmoth
(Apr 20 05, 02:17)Sorry, Man. I meant majority Designers. :P ... and no I don't have the figures to back that up. :(
- rasko40
I swear you twats would shout at brick walls if they had something written on them you didn't agree with.
why waste your time?
- vidaartera0
im in art school right now. ive been trained on mac and pc. i remember playing games on our old apple 2 and also a CD-ROM on our IBM aptiva with windows 95. i knwo xp and osx like the back of my hand. ise use photoshop, illustrator, quark xpress, dreamweaver and flash on both platform every single day. we have G5 labs and HP workstation labs. i like the colors i get on mac machines. they are slow as fuck tho. i love the speed of the mouse and interface on windows. absolutely hate the boring interface and lame color results. one problem osx has is file management (which i hear is being improved on greatly in tiger but) ya try using FTP on locked lab machines. GREAT i can download with safari but i cant upload. just fucking great. IE on the other hand no problem. there are pros and cons. mac heads are nuts. my girlfriends 60 year old parents say im from the "darkside" because i have new VIAO laptop. i dont tell them i have a G5 desktop. its fun to hear them talk about things they know nothing about. the best is when i hear old stories about their first machines and the programs they had. like Dbase. wtf. people are nuts about platforms.
- kuttnhaste0
Is this for real... what tha?.
- canuck0
Whatever. The company I work for is so damn archaic, it's not like they will buy another adobe or macromedia product for a long time. My boss is still using photoshop 5.