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Will Steve Jobs' anti-Adobe & anti-Google rant harm the Mac?
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It would be foolish and irresponsible for Adobe to pick up their toys and take them home and refuse to play... alienating a large revenue stream over ego, hurt feelings and to prove a point
That is something Steve would do... not Adobe
Woof, Woof - Dawg
The Prayer of the Selfish Child:
Now I lay me down to sleep;
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my toys to break,
(so none of the other kids can use 'em.)
--Shel Silverstein
You gotta love Shel Silverstein.
@Zombie
I meant that part tongue in cheek - I'll fix it for you.
Adobe is publicly traded company. Their shareholders (who are already upset at their declining stock price which is about 20 points off from its high a few years ago) would freak out to put it mildly.
Like I said above, the Mac accounts for close to 50 percent of Photoshops market share.
Adobes relationship with Apple really soured after Bruce Chizen abandoned ship.
Chizen formerly was an executive at Claris and became sort of the Steve Jobs of Adobe for years overseeing the Macromedia acquisition, the creation of InDesign and the bundling of all their products into Suites.
Jobs and Chizen at least had a relationship. You cant say that for Adobes current management.
I've had quite a few Flash-caused crashes in Safari with 10 in the last few weeks.
Flash is fine for me. I've never understood all the gripes about it.
Anyway, this story will mean nothing to Apple's bottom line.
I know everyone loves to point out what a douche Jobs is, but has he ever really done anything like that?
I'm reminded of the story of when Jobs accompanied some of the senior Apple negotiators when they were renewing/renegotiating the agreement with the makers of the PowerPC CPUs. Throughout the meeting, Jobs basically sat back and kept quiet, which both the Apple team and the PowerPC team thought was unusual. At the end, when all the agreements were signed and both sides were glad-handing each other, Jobs stands up and, apropos of nothing, tells the PowerPC reps, "I'll be glad the day we can kick you people to the curb," and walks right out the door, leaving the PowerPC team with jaws on the floor and the Apple guys cringing. It was not long after this that Apple made serious inroads towards switching to Intel.
I'm sure there's a link to be Googled (and I may have some of the details wrong) but honestly, I'm too tired.
Instead of starting a new thread, I thought I'd reuse this one...
In light of the recent open letter Steve Jobs published, and Adobe's rebuttal, does anyone think that this will harm Apple's high-end Mac sales? If development of Adobe products (CS6, etc.) slows to a virtual stand-still, do you think Apple could lose some marketshare in the publishing/art world? That market spends a lot of money on expensive Macs and similarly expensive Adobe products (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign...).
Anyone think Apple should use a few billion dollars and buy Adobe? What's Adobe worth, anyway...? Anyone know?
In light of the recent open letter Steve Jobs published, and Adobe's rebuttal, does anyone think that this will harm Apple's high-end Mac sales? If development of Adobe products (CS6, etc.) slows to a virtual stand-still, do you think Apple could lose some marketshare in the publishing/art world? That market spends a lot of money on expensive Macs and similarly expensive Adobe products (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign...).
Anyone think Apple should use a few billion dollars and buy Adobe? What's Adobe worth, anyway...? Anyone know?
It will take more then a few billion, and it will be a hostile take over meaning a long and protracted battle. What does apple have to gain from buying adobe?
Its been said many times, apple uses software to drive hardware sales. They're not a software company per say. Everything is geared to sell Macs, iPhones, iPods.
Until they get their developers to start packaging their software in a more user friendly manner (or get them all on repository) that isn't going to happen.
Ubuntu is pretty friendly, I haven't had a single issue with updates or software on my lap top--I'd switch completely if not for the few limitations on PPC architecture but for Intel and AMD machines it's pretty seamless. As for the repository issues there aren't any that I've noticed.
There are programs that are not located in the repository, and when u go to the web to get them the typical user isn't going to be able to use the terminal to unpackage and compile them. Hell they might have troubles simply making an icon to launch the application.