On Oct 15, 2004, at 12:22 PM, Larry le Mac wrote:
From: "Brian L. Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My argument is that sadly people believe that this is all there is to computing...
Why is this sad? I think it's a very good thing indeed that today's computers can support a wide range of users.
My point is that it's sad when people think that the world of the Mac is all there is to computing, but I think I've said this too many times already.
I'll give you one example, Adobe FrameMaker. Now only exists for Windows. Think what impact this has on industry where large databases of articles are put into catalogues. No way can one use a Mac.
Unless one can use AppleWorks...
Or TeX, or Quark, or Indesign coupled with ODBC plugins, or Multi-Ad Creator, or...there's a number of solutions. True, if you were tied to FrameMaker, then you're screwed, but if you hadn't seen THAT handwriting on the wall for years you were blind. FrameMaker has been the red-headed stepchild at Adobe for all of it's life.
The only other app Adobe's dropped for the Mac is Premiere, and that's because between Avid Express and Final Cut Pro/Final Cut Express it got crushed by far superior rivals.
High end 3-D design, CAD? There's a ton of apps: Maya, Lightwave, TrueSpace, Ashlar... About the only missing ones are 3DSMax and Autocad.
Nasa released their high-end fluid dynamics simulation and computation package TeTRUSS <http://aaac.larc.nasa.gov/tsab/tetruss/mac/about.html> to OS X.
Macs are huge in bioinformatics, big enough that Apple sells preconfigured clusters of XServes with a ton of apps for the task: <http://www.apple.com/xserve/cluster/wgcluster.html>
While we're on clusters, by the end of the year two of the top ten supercomputers in the world are going to be Macs...
Macs are huge in video and film production. Shake and Motion are top end apps in their field.
But you're right, macs don't do more than a few percent of all the computing tasks in the world. But then neither do PC's. The overwhelming majority of computers in the world are cheap, anonymous, single task systems regulating your cars engine, your microwave, traffic lights, routers, etc etc.
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