[X4U] New Software for PPC

[Eugene]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 09:43:11AM CST, Jim Robertson <jamesrob at sonic.net> wrote:
: 
: On the other hand, cross-platform developers may be less interested in
: wringing the last little bit (or last whole lot) of performance out of
: platform-specific hardware. For example, I'll wager Adobe didn't introduce
: their "Light Room" as a Mac-only beta because of some new-found love for the
: Mac platform. I suspect their goal was just the opposite: they don't want
: people abandoning Windows because of Aperture. Note that unlike Aperture,
: Adobe's LightRoom doesn't use any hardware acceleration features of OS X's
: "CoreImage", which is what makes Aperture so hardware-demanding on the Mac.
: If Adobe can keep Windows-user photographers from jumping to the Mac by
: reassuring their Windows users they'll soon have their own equivalent
: product, later on they'll be able to continue their obvious gradual move
: away from the Macintosh. (Why do you think the begging and pleading for an
: OS X version of FrameMaker falls on deaf ears?)

Adobe should not care about the OS.  They should care only about
their own customers.  So Light Room is really more about Adobe
maintaining a solid base for their professional photography
customer niche, instead of losing that niche to a non-Adobe
product, i.e. Aperture.

Also, I don't believe Adobe is trying to kill FrameMaker by not
porting it to OS X.  They want to kill FrameMaker by forcing
users to "upgrade" to InDesign, which is available on both OS X
and Windoze.


-- 
Eugene
http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/