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Reprieve for Booting New Macs With Mac OS?

Posted by pudge on from the yay-quark dept.

MatthewRothenberg writes "Apple has announced that as of January, new Macs will boot with Mac OS X only, but now MacInTouch reports that there might be a reprieve in the works for booting with Mac OS. According to one reader, a Quark representative has been calling pro publishers to ease their worries about the lack of a Mac OS X-native version of its QuarkXPress DTP program; after talking it over with Quark, Apple has agreed to move back the Mac OS X-only deadline until June." I can imagine that conversation with Jobs: "Why don't you just finish porting your freaking product already?"

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  1. Steve Jobs/Fred Ebrahimi love-in by vilms · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard this too. My immediate reaction was that some heroic spin had been applied to the REAL story about the meeting. After the preliminary name-calling and fistfight, Steve and Fred were pulled apart, dusted down and made to sit through a mindnumbing PowerPoint presentation that told Fred:

    Every other product you've launched APART from XPress has failed. Most of your user base is on the Macintosh. They're going to Mac OS X and you're holding them back. Meanwhile, Adobe has a product that works on X now...today... and can be used with a little prior knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator.

    Steve's slide was:
    There's a significant percentage of major publishers who might just take this opportunity to dump the Macintosh and slide all those legacy Quark files over to Windows. Because, really, is that migration going to be any more fraught than a forced migration to X when you don't even know if your principal software (and attendant Xtensions) is coming along for the ride? XPress on Windows might be an unpalatable choice, but at least it's there. Right?

    I've completely forgotten the point I was trying to make.

  2. Re:What good should that delay be? by pudge · · Score: 1, Funny
    They really want to come over to crash-free OSX, but QXP is their livelihood.


    There's a crash-free version of Mac OS X? Where can I get it?
  3. Repeat after me... by andrewski · · Score: 2, Funny

    There is no carbonized port of Quark XPress, and there never will be. There is no carbonized port of Quark XPress, and there never will be. There is no carbonized port of Quark XPress, and there never will be.

    Seriously, though, those Quark guys must have used a crapload of totally custom code that wasn't in the Mac Toolkit, or else there surely would be a OS X version of XPress by now.

    Or, maybe they lost all of the source code in a freak accident and are just stalling while they code up their next Adobe killer (yeah right).