[Ti] Quark on Mac

[Ron Woodland]

"Publishing is dying?"  Yikes!!  If I were him, I wouldn't be sleeping 
at night for worry about his business.  If this is true, why did Quark 
abandon their QuarkIMedia product shortly after it's introduction and 
then later shut down mFactory a year after Quark bought the company 
along with its very promising mTropolis multimedia authoring product? 
At that time, the rationale was that multimedia had no future.

It sounds like Quark's CEO will soon be presiding over the death of a 
[once-] great company ...one product at a time.  How many do they have left?

BTW, I seem to remember that Quark's founder (not the current CEO) once 
worked at Apple.  Is this true, or just a wishful irony?

Ron Woodland
St. George, UT


coccolithophorid at earthlink.net wrote:

> For all the fans of Quark on the Mac platform, here's yet another reason 
> to switch to something else...
> http://www.macedition.com/nmr/nmr_20021126.php
> 
> Quark CEO reveals his contempt for his customers
> The CEO of Quark told a room full of customers at an executive briefing 
> "that 'the Macintosh platform is shrinking,' and that 'publishing is 
> dying.' He suggested that anyone dissatisfied with Quark's Mac 
> commitment should 'switch to something else,' although he insisted that 
> making the move to Adobe's long-Carbonized InDesign package is 
> 'committing suicide.'" As Merlin wrote, "Yeah, so all you dumbasses that 
> talked your boss into shitcanning PageMaker in favor of our hard-to-use, 
> never-upgraded software a few years back: Psych! So long, suckers!" Link 
> Discuss (via Kung-Fu Grippe)