I think the Quark issue is a great excuse for Apple to back off of at least one of their arrogant mistakes announced at the last MacWorld. Jaguar was touted as the be-all-ready-for-prime-time version of OSX. Fact is, it was bug-ridden; with the last 2 releases fixing no less then 150 bugs (that is more than the $1 per feature cost of upgrading that Jobs touted).
They alienated thousands with the mis-handling of.mac and the full-price-only upgrade to Jaguar. Anyone who has a large number of Macs in design and publishing has stayed away from OSX because of the hidden costs of upgrading. And now that Apple has made it clear that it will cost about $700 to get to the next full version of the OS, multi-Mac houses are taking a wait-and-see approach. Remember, counting the software upgrades, a upgrade to OSX for the average design workstation is close to $1,000.
Apple is only too happy to back off of this "shove X down your throat" move and blame Quark.
This is not revenge! We have finally seen the Ralsky light! And to show our appreciation, we are sending him information about every bit of useful information we can think of in the hope that he will show us how we can actually make money sending him information in a way similar to how he makes money sending it to us.
If you are using Windows for graphics work you are being charged a premium by vendors... they won't admit this, but as one who worked in prepress, Windows files always get an "aggravation charge" rolled into the price. This isn't frivolous, Windows-based files are always more time intensive. Graphics is still a Mac world.
They are committing fraud by providing false identities (in email headers); while I am glad that the FTC is finally doing something... I must also say it is about time.
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I think the Quark issue is a great excuse for Apple to back off of at least one of their arrogant mistakes announced at the last MacWorld. Jaguar was touted as the be-all-ready-for-prime-time version of OSX. Fact is, it was bug-ridden; with the last 2 releases fixing no less then 150 bugs (that is more than the $1 per feature cost of upgrading that Jobs touted).
.mac and the full-price-only upgrade to Jaguar. Anyone who has a large number of Macs in design and publishing has stayed away from OSX because of the hidden costs of upgrading. And now that Apple has made it clear that it will cost about $700 to get to the next full version of the OS, multi-Mac houses are taking a wait-and-see approach. Remember, counting the software upgrades, a upgrade to OSX for the average design workstation is close to $1,000.
They alienated thousands with the mis-handling of
Apple is only too happy to back off of this "shove X down your throat" move and blame Quark.
This is not revenge! We have finally seen the Ralsky light! And to show our appreciation, we are sending him information about every bit of useful information we can think of in the hope that he will show us how we can actually make money sending him information in a way similar to how he makes money sending it to us.
If you are using Windows for graphics work you are being charged a premium by vendors... they won't admit this, but as one who worked in prepress, Windows files always get an "aggravation charge" rolled into the price. This isn't frivolous, Windows-based files are always more time intensive. Graphics is still a Mac world.
They are committing fraud by providing false identities (in email headers); while I am glad that the FTC is finally doing something... I must also say it is about time.