Cringely Posits Adobe's Purchase by Apple

An anonymous reader writes to mention another Robert Cringely piece discussing Apple's future. In his latest article, he lays out some goals for Apple on its quest to desktop dominance. An important link in this chain is Apple's purchase of Adobe Systems. From the article: "Adobe has already made one feint away from Mac development that required personal pressure from Steve Jobs on John Warnock to reverse. If Apple kinda-sorta embraces Windows enough for Adobe to question whether continued development for the native OS X platform is still warranted, well, then Apple WILL just become another Dell, which isn't what Steve Jobs wants. Steve wants Windows applications to run like crazy on his hybrid platform but to look like crap. In his heart of hearts, he'd still like to beat Microsoft on the merits, not just by leveraging some clever loophole. So he needs the top ISVs who are currently writing for OS X to continue writing for OS X, and that especially means Adobe."

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The Cringe of Embracing Windows

[digitaldc]

Steve wants Windows applications to run like crazy on his hybrid platform but to look like crap.

I have seen it and, well at least it does run like crazy...

The merged company name will be . . .

[Anonymous Coward]

Taking the "A" from Adobe and the "pple" from Apple.

Re:So the logic here is

[vertinox]

What do call a CEO who makes the decision to chop $400 million off his company's profits?

Carly Fiorina

Well... And unemployed.