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

[Simon Chapman]

A couple of years ago, when Apple looked dead in the water, Adobe, not
surprisingly, switch most of its resources over to Windows development.
Although it has swung back from the precipice, it looks like management
policy is still Windows-heavy - although most of the code crunchers are
card-carrying Macheads. Then Adobe went very cold when Apple, fearing that
noone was going to develop a Firewire DV app, went ahead on its own with
FCP, taking a lot of business away from Premiere. Then iMovie took a bit
more business away and very likely FCP Express will take significantly
more. So I don't think that Adobe and Apple are as close as they were and I
do think that Adobe makes Mac users sweat on upgrades and bugfix releases.

Simon

At 11:35 am -0500 20/1/03, Michael Bigley wrote:
>This is absolutely false; Adobe has delayed the release of Mac
>versions so they can simultaneously release apps and vice versa.  The
>last Adobe app that a Windows version was launched first was Acrobat
>4 and the Project Manager was fired for that.
>
>There was some squabbling because over OSX versions, but in Adobe's
>words, it was like disagreements amongst family members. Chuck Geshke
>and John Warnock are very dedicated to Apple; and Apple has a very
>close relationship with Adobe.
>
>>Adobe has second-classed its Mac business because the big sales are on the
>>Wintel side.  Adobes Wintel apps always ship first these days.