For tommie: Behind the Apple press releases and SJ's RDF 1081
Lets see: It's fast, no doubt about that. Much faster than my PPC Macs. That's about all its got going for it, though. :( -The hard drive is way too small for a...
Tom. People have been making that dire prediction for 30 years now. Even in the middle nineties, before Jobs returned, when Apple was about as low as they ever got, few developers left the fold. Market share might be just holding its own, but these numbers represent millions of machines sold and millions of potential software package sales as well. Remember, studies have shown that Mac users are far more likely to buy new software or to upgrade what they already have than are Windows users. Its not lost upon the developer community that most Windows PCs are sold into corporate environments where only a few software packages get installed on each machine by the corporate owners, and that they are rarely, if ever, upgraded.
I'm sorry, but that's simply not in evidence while there *is* every reason to believe that this would NOT be the case. Apple has made a number of "paradigm" shifts since the introduction of the Mac in 1983. The first was the switch from OS6 to OS7. At this time, when Apple had a full 10% of the market and apps like Illustrator and Photoshop accounted for close to, if not 100% of Adobe's sales, it still took them over a YEAR to come out with OS7 feature-aware apps. They waited until the next natural upgrade cycle to add OS7 features.
The next paradigm switch was the changeover from CISC to RISC processors. Again, Adobe didn't have a native PPC version of their offerings for more than a year. The third paradigm switch was the change from OS9 to OSX. Again over a year for the native OSX Adobe upgrades (although they did come out with a patch that ran SOME Photoshop functions natively, IIRC. The can't do that this time because of the nature of Rosetta).
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Now we are faced with the situation that Apple was way early with the release of the Intel Macs, and Adobe, running true to form will not be adding Intel support to their apps until the next iteration or CS3. Nothing has changed and even if Apple accounted for 100% of Adobe's sales (as they once did) there is no reason to believe that that these creative suite apps would be ready any sooner.
I disagree. The numbers are there for most Mac developers way out of proportion to Apple's actual market share.
On 04-21-2006 Secunia put out the following advisory. Thanks to Ilgaz Ocal for posting this over at comp.sys.mac.system. Background: a 'DoS' is a Denial of Service. It refers to when an...
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