For the same price, if they have the choice between a Pocket PC that can read email, browse internet, read RSS feeds, run DOS apps, read PDFs, watch movies, listen music, do GPS navigation, Instant message, run Scumm games, run NES games, do calls with Skype, organize photos, create Word documents, create Excel documents, watch Powerpoint presentations, run VNC, plan budget, plan fitness, read an offline version of Wikipedia, compose music, etc...
... or and Ipod who that... play music.
They will pick the Ipod without hesitation, even if it doesn't have a replacable battery and they will even reveal their ignorance using clearly visible white earbuds!
PhotoShop is an arrogant software lacking competition. In 1995, I was a working professionnaly for a printshop and using a software called Aldus PhotoStyler. This software was absolutely outstanding with many simple features that Photoshop still does not have today:
- Magic wand that can select based on hue (perfect for green screen)
- Magic wand with a threshold that you can adjust AFTER you have clicked.
- A color picker that can average a region.
- A pixel accurate crop box.
Those were really useful features that I still lack today. PhotoStyler was a professionnal tool costing more than 800$ and worth every penny. PhotoStyler was that feature rich. I was doing only the basic things but it was doing it well. It didn't had the fancy swirl effect but I never had a customer who required a swirl.
What happened to PhotoStyler? I was bought by Adobe and discontinued. It was a superior software at that time and it was the only way for Adobe to continue selling PhotoShop.
The guys who coded PhotoStyler decided to restart again and came up with Ulead PhotoImpact but that product not as good as the original PhotoStyler. They decided to target home users instead of professionals because of PhotoShop dominance and removed important features like CMYK support and added tons of useless features (for professionals) like a button makers and... the swirl.
LCD Display are best used with Windows NT Technology.
They failed seducing the developpers.
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It seems obvious to me that in order for a platform to be successfull, you have to please the developers first. M$ isn't spending all that money on free.NET tools for nothing.
Palm developers had to work with the limited Palm API and use GCC without the standard libraries while Windows CE developers could drag and drop controls in a free VB GUI.
The biggest mistake of Palm is this one: They haven't bought HB++ handheldbasic.com and they haven't gave it for free to all willing developpers.
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Of course they are...
... or and Ipod who that ... play music.
For the same price, if they have the choice between a Pocket PC that can read email, browse internet, read RSS feeds, run DOS apps, read PDFs, watch movies, listen music, do GPS navigation, Instant message, run Scumm games, run NES games, do calls with Skype, organize photos, create Word documents, create Excel documents, watch Powerpoint presentations, run VNC, plan budget, plan fitness, read an offline version of Wikipedia, compose music, etc...
They will pick the Ipod without hesitation, even if it doesn't have a replacable battery and they will even reveal their ignorance using clearly visible white earbuds!
PhotoShop is an arrogant software lacking competition. In 1995, I was a working professionnaly for a printshop and using a software called Aldus PhotoStyler. This software was absolutely outstanding with many simple features that Photoshop still does not have today:
... the swirl.
- Magic wand that can select based on hue (perfect for green screen)
- Magic wand with a threshold that you can adjust AFTER you have clicked.
- A color picker that can average a region.
- A pixel accurate crop box.
Those were really useful features that I still lack today. PhotoStyler was a professionnal tool costing more than 800$ and worth every penny. PhotoStyler was that feature rich. I was doing only the basic things but it was doing it well. It didn't had the fancy swirl effect but I never had a customer who required a swirl.
What happened to PhotoStyler? I was bought by Adobe and discontinued. It was a superior software at that time and it was the only way for Adobe to continue selling PhotoShop.
The guys who coded PhotoStyler decided to restart again and came up with Ulead PhotoImpact but that product not as good as the original PhotoStyler. They decided to target home users instead of professionals because of PhotoShop dominance and removed important features like CMYK support and added tons of useless features (for professionals) like a button makers and
Great, I always wanted a 2.4GHz emitter that I stick close to my brain for hours.
LCD Display are best used with Windows NT Technology.
It seems obvious to me that in order for a platform to be successfull, you have to please the developers first. M$ isn't spending all that money on free .NET tools for nothing.
Palm developers had to work with the limited Palm API and use GCC without the standard libraries while Windows CE developers could drag and drop controls in a free VB GUI.
The biggest mistake of Palm is this one: They haven't bought HB++ handheldbasic.com and they haven't gave it for free to all willing developpers.