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Old 04-29-2010, 08:06 PM   #40
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube View Post
Steve Jobs is blaming Adobe. Adobe is blaming Apple, etc.
Well, here's a tip... Apple doesn't make money from Adobe's products working well on a Mac. Adobe makes money from Adobe's products working well on a Mac.

A 3rd-party software developer blaming their target OS for why their software sucks is pretty wonky. The real truth of the matter is that Apple helped build Adobe, and Adobe has always been able to rely on their Mac user base. They've been focusing all their efforts on going after the corporate Windows crowd, and taking their Mac users for granted.

Also, I love the bit about Adobe citing their Creative Suite software as an example of why they're an "Open, multiplatform company."

#1: While Windows and Mac is more than one, so it technically qualifies as "multiplatform," that's a pretty lame way of putting it. Especially when you're comparing yourself to a company that makes an operating system. Whoever heard of a multiplatform OS? The OS is the platform...

#2: If you're going to brag about being mulitplatform, when you only support two platforms... you might want to make sure your products actually work properly on one of the two platforms.

#3: Almost every single one of their programs uses some form of proprietary file format as its default file type, and Flash is the single most proprietary mainstream technology on the internet today. If Adobe is "open" then I'm John Candy.

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