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PC Mag talks with Adobe about Apple, Mac apps

updated 01:30 pm EDT, Thu April 22, 2004

Adobe on Apple, Mac apps


An interveiw with Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen talks about the : "When you look at our overall revenue, or percentage of revenue, we get somewhere between 22% and 25% of our business from Macintosh customers or software that runs on the Mac. If you factor out Acrobat and the server products, our Mac business has stayed relatively strong, which is good news. What we don't see are a lot of graphics professionals moving over, back from Windows to Macintosh.. Most of our customers are telling us they have plans to move to G5 this year, which is good news for the industry and good news for us."


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  1. DeepDish

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    04/22, 02:18pm | report spam | Reply |

    pc back to mac

    I wonder why pc people who swtiched from mac to pc during the dark years, don't switch back to the mac?

  1. mamamia

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    04/22, 02:50pm | report spam | Reply |

    probably because

    they are finding out that the pc works just as well as the mac did.

  1. DeepDish

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    04/22, 03:05pm | report spam | Reply |

    confused

    Someone please correct me where I am wrong. But I always thought graphic artist prefer the mac because macs are better with postscript fonts and color correction is built into the system.

    Other then viruses and security issues and the UI, are pcs just as good now a days as macs when it comes to graphic design?

    I think I feel depressed, better go find an Apple store to hang out in and feel better.

  1. digitalrhino

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    04/22, 03:11pm | report spam | Reply |

    Yeah

    The font and color correction stuff used to be an issue, but hasn't been for many years. So yeah, PCs work just as well for graphics apps as macs. It really is a pretty level playing field in that respect these day, it just depends on how you feel about the respective OSes and such.

  1. gwarana

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    04/22, 03:49pm | report spam | Reply |

    re: Yeah

    Exactly. Anymore, what it really comes down to is who's going to do the printing for you. If your print bureau uses PCs, you'd better use PCs. Fonts are the big problem, if you're not using OS X (which can use Windows TTF fonts). Sure, you can make a PDF with the fonts embedded, but sometimes your printer needs to change something to work with their output device, or they have to output it directly from Quark or Freehand, or whatever. PDF isn't always the answer. Macs and PCs are both fine for the design aspect, but most printers out there still use Macs because that's what they've always used, so it's always a good idea to check what OS and what versions of software they're using.

  1. bitfactory

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    04/22, 04:10pm | report spam | Reply |

    mouse dpi

    mouse dpi on the PCs i've used SUCKS - not to mention working in the APPLICATION window only SUCKS as well. i'd rather have the menubar change than have a separate menu bar in a friggin masked window. so, no, they don't work as well - but thanks for playing.

  1. KidRed

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    04/22, 04:51pm | report spam | Reply |

    confused..

    He says he doesn't see a lot of pros switching back to macs from PCs, but then say's a lot of customers are moving to G5s this year which is good. So, ah, which is it? Customers are either moving to G5s are they aren't. :confused:

  1. digitalrhino

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    04/22, 06:22pm | report spam | Reply |

    re: Confused

    Well, i would take it to mean that he doesn't see alot of their costumers switching back to macs, but he does see the ones that are already on Macs moving to G5s.

  1. slipperfrog

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    04/22, 08:56pm | report spam | Reply |

    re: mouse dpi

    mouse dpi on the PCs i've used SUCKS - not to mention working in the APPLICATION window only SUCKS as well. i'd rather have the menubar change than have a separate menu bar in a friggin masked window. so, no, they don't work as well - but thanks for playing.

    So...get a better mouse, maybe? If you're still using the mouse that came with your computer, you have no-one to blame but yourself for it.

    And because TWO things don't meet your arbitrary 'standards' the whole thing's worthless?

  1. inkswamp

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    04/23, 05:37am | report spam | Reply |

    fonts and mouse

    PCs do not work as well in terms of font-handling, not in a highly pro setting. PCs constantly mangle fonts especially when sending them to high-end image setters.

    Also, I've experienced the annoying "imprecise" behavior of the cursor on Windows. It's annoying and makes working in WIndows version of Photoshop a game of hit-and-miss.

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