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Apple Bundles InDesign With Power Macs

Posted by pudge on from the take-that-quark dept.

analog_line writes "Apple is firing a shot across the bow of Quark with a new promotion bundling Adobe InDesign 2.0 with every new PowerMac G4 (that is, the towers). News.com has a story on this as well. I say go Apple. Hopefully this will either get Quark to release their Mac OS X version of XPress or start the process of killing them off once and for all." I really liked QuarkXPress a lot when I used it extensively back in the version 3 days. It'd be a shame if it they lose out on Apple's new platform. But as a capitalist, I say, let the best product win!

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  1. Capitalist? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But as a capitalist, I say, let the best product win!

    But if Apple bundles the product wouldn't that give a distinct advantage to Adobe without regards to whether they have a better product? This to me is just Apple's way of slapping Quark's wrist and rewarding Adobe, who aside from Microsoft is Apple's biggest software producer.

  2. Re:Apple is desparate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You don't know what you're talking about. Quark has said over and over again there IS an OS X version of Quark coming. No definite date, but the rumblings are early 2003. And considering the computers that run Quark now do just fine, it's hard to imagine any service bureau insane enough to update their systems until Quark is native X.

    You ought to think through the implications of what you say - and read a bit more.