Adobe and Apple, is it all over

[David Cake]

	The article is kind of idiotic. Sure, Apple aren't happy with 
Adobe for not releasing UB versions of its products - but Adobe are 
surely less happy about it. Macs that are largely dedicated to the 
various Adobe apps are certainly an important part of Apples market, 
but they are a much larger part of Adobes market, obviously - Apple 
can cope with delaying upgradees on such machines far more easily 
than Adobe can. And the idea that Adobe would cripple the Mac version 
of its flagship product for nearly two years to punish Apple for 
competing with a new, much less important, product is absurd.
	Its yet another case where we should be applying the old 
heuristic "never attribute to malice what can be explained by 
incompetence". The sad truth is, Adobe is now a company controlled by 
a marketing guy that is dropping the ball in a serious way on some 
major aspects of its development. Its like Apple under Spindler, 
concentrating on marketing and competitive strategy at the expense of 
making products people want and doing the necessary work to keep up 
the market. Admittedly, Adobe has more excuse, as its still 
struggling with the Macromedia acquisition and a product line that 
now has lots of duplication and confusion. P
	erhaps heroic struggles are going on to shift all development 
to a new standard platform, and perhaps Contribute was just outside 
the project timeline and pushed out using old copies of CodeWarrior 
instead, and once we see the results of their shift in some years we 
will be stunned at the amazing work Adobe has been doing to upgrade 
their standard libraries, and the resulting magical improvement in 
the products. But somehow, I doubt it and think more likely they've 
just hit problems with the project.
	Wasn't Photoshop a poster child for the 'we can move to 
Intel' demos? Which sounds rather like hubris in retrospect, doesn't 
it?
	Cheers
		Dave