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IOW, you can claim it'll happen with no fear of being proven wrong.
Often this isn't the case, actually. Digital production presses frequently run on their own specialized software (which might run on Windows or Linux, but the underlying system doesn't really matter in such a specialized application.)
Everyone can read the same ICC profiles. What everyone *does* with them them is a different matter.
Actually, the Adobe apps are an interesting case, because Adobe implements its own cross-platform color management system (probably because they weren't happy with what Windows had). If you stick to using that system and you don't use anything but Adobe apps, you should be able to get away with using Windows, except maybe if you need to do print output directly from the Windows box.
But most serious workflows extend beyond just one vendor's apps, so having professional level system-wide color management becomes important pretty fast.
Heh. If that were true, Apple would have three times the market share.
If this market were mostly on Linux, maybe, but I don't think it is these days. Go look at pictures from, say, RailsConf. You'll be hard-pressed to find a photo containing a computer that isn't an Apple laptop.
Full separation of roles isn't really practical. Even if your design guys aren't doing serious coding, they probably still have to work with page templates which need server-side processing before display. I suppose you could have them design entirely static web pages and then have another bunch of people create the templates from those, but that would be a pretty huge waste of time.
Or, I guess, you could *just* have your design guys do Photoshop mock-ups, and then have other people turn those into templates and CSS. But then those guys need both Photoshop (for pulling individual elements out of the mock-ups) and would benefit from having a server locally as well.
Photoshop does. You can choose to use either Adobe's stuff or Apple's. If you use Apple's, you can move stuff between Adobe apps and non-Adobe apps while maintaining consistent color. (And color...
Apple knows better; you will observe that during the keynote Steve brought up developer adoption of Intel too. Sure, you can talk about individual parts of the transition, but it's not "pretty impressive" to...
And, of course, a lot of web projects these days (some of them fairly serious) are undertaken by just one or two people, and in that case everyone is usually both a coder and a designer. (Yes, it's harder to find people who can do both well, but they are out there.)
DOS is still supported after 25. snip Yes. But Apple simply doesn't care about compatibility as much as MS does. This is...
A majority of web developers would benefit from doing this. How many actually do, I can't say.
Adobe is handling this transition the same way as their OS X transition. They're sticking to their usual release schedule, and just rolling Intel support into the next release.
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