Well, here’s an different viewpoint, and one that includes a timeline of the Apple vs. Adobe confrontation that we are seeing played out these days… And one that acknowledges that Apple did not start this battle, Adobe did in 1996/2001.
In 1996 when Apple was seemingly on the ropes, Adobe made a crucial business decision and one that is coming back to bite them in the ass. They declared that their primary development platform would be Windows; subsequently, every new application or major revision of a product was introduced for Windows first and followed months later, sometimes never at all, by a Mac version.
After Steve Jobs took over and he was charting out a new course with OS X, Apple reached out many times to Abode to introduce a native version of their suite for the new OS. Adobe never committed – standing by its prediction that OS X would never gain momentum or share and it would ride the Windows ascendancy. Adobe thought that it had the dominant hand and displayed its arrogance in public.
This is a good read, and gives some fantastic background material…
Read the article Sorry, Adobe, you screwed yourself
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