Corel has for Macs, according to Macworld UK: "Chairman Derek Burney revealed the news during a meeting last night. The product consisted of CorelDraw for illustration, page-layout and vector drawing; Corel Photo-Paint for digital imaging; and Corel R.A.V.E. for motion-graphics creation."
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Yeah, sad to see one less Mac app, but to be honest Corel isnt very good when compared to the competition, so not surprised most Mac users will purchase Illustrator over Draw, Photoshop over Photo-Paint etc...
Huh. I wasn't aware it was still in production. Oh well.
Are they going to sell it to someone else to support, or will this be abandonware?
Is corel still owned/partly owned by m$?
was the first to be ported on the Mac if I remember well. it was so unstable. The only good app in the Corel Suite at that time was the texture generating application. Anyway, no wonder not many people ever used it on the Mac.
They claimed they needed 10% of sales to warrant Mac development? That doesn't make any sense considering the cost to develop the product is fixed. Should they say they need x number of customers?
Regardless, I won't miss it.
I remembe when I switched to Mac, I had then invested I don't know how much since Corel 1.0 until that day, easily thousands. Anyway, I called them up and asked, "Can I trade my license from Windows to Mac? I've been a customer since version 1.0 for PC...."
Their answer couldn't have been more cold. No, but we will sell you a license for $300. I was like, I have upgraded every year since and have given you enough money, all I want to do is... and they heard... Charlie Brown's mother... bwa-bwa-bwa...bwabwa...
Now everything makes sense. The only reason I used Corel was to satisfy my client's desire to use the software, so I told him he could buy the license by way of a price increase from me, or I could just use another program, and he'd get the same results.
Guess what? f*** you Corel.
I found this quote very Quayle-esque:
[Chairman Derek Burney] added that 96 per cent of Corel Graphics Suite sales have been of the Windows version of the software, and observed that the ten per cent of sales to Mac users "were insuffficient to justify Mac development of the product."
96 per cent of sales are Windows users
10 per cent of sales are Mac users
Either they are really savvy and are counting users that use it on both platforms properly, or else .. they are just out to lunch.
What they should have done is keep WordPerfect on the Mac platform. That is one piece of software that actually did well. Going up against the suite of Adobe apps was just to difficult no one uses anything else. At least with WordPerfect they would still have a niche market in the legal world.
Only windows users buy bad software.
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