[Ti] Market Share: 2.3% -- That's NOT good press, coupled with the loss

[Glenn L. Austin]

on 1/18/2003 6:01 PM, XXL at xxl at mac.com wrote:

>>> is hard to argue with the notion that developing for the huge base of Wintel
>>> machines has the potential for greater profit.
>> 
>> Not necessarily true... in graphics world, Adobe still sell 50% or
>> more Mac versions.
> 
> Adobe has second-classed its Mac business because the big sales are on the
> Wintel side.  Adobes Wintel apps always ship first these days.

According to a contact inside Adobe (at the time), it is because the Wintel
version would *never* ship if they let the engineers work on the Mac version
first.  Working on the Mac version is used as the *reward* for the drudgery
of dealing with Windows. ;-)

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