[OT] Cringely on BootCamp's future

[Judy Perry]

Chipp,

Doesn't Adobe allow you to pay a small fee to 'cross-grade' from one
platform to the other?  Or was it Macromedia?  I'm pretty certain that one
of those two companies (now the same one, of course) didn't make it really
financially painful to switch platforms...

Judy

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Chipp Walters wrote:

> One point not mentioned about the new BootCamp dual boot option: I
> wonder how much Adobe's decision not to port Photoshop to Universal
> binary for 18 months has affected Apple? I mean, if a majority of Mac
> users use their Macs to do Photo editing and Graphic work w/Photoshop,
> then that's got to be really bad news for them. Perhaps releasing
> BootCamp helps convince those users to go ahead and upgrade to Intel
> Macs and just buy a Windows version of Photoshop (expensive alternative!)