Good thoughts about Apple from Omar

Omar, as usual, posted some good thoughts about Apple. I share a lot of them, except that I don’t have the chutzpah to post them.

My favorite snippet is this one:

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Then there is stuff like “look, this company wrote this crazy cool application in 2 minutes! Our dev tools are so easy, you can lean Objective C and crank out an iPhone app and port your application in a few days”. This reminds me of when Apple had Adobe on stage and convinced the world that recompiling PhotoShop for Mac OS X took them only 2 weeks. It took them 2 years I think to actually ship.

Actually, it took 3-4 years because Photoshop 7 didn’t ship until 2002. Here’s a snippet that (of all people!) Jorg Brown wrote for Macintouch:

But Carbon allows Mac developers to do all this without having to work as hard. As an example, a VP at Adobe demo’d a version of Photoshop that had been re-written to work with Carbon; in a week and half of part-time work while Photoshop 5.0 was being finalized, he had made the necessary changes to Photoshop. It’s a far cry from the years of effort it would have taken to move to Rhapsody. Also, apps re-written for Carbon will also run on Mac OS 8!

The whole time the Mac community yelled at Adobe for dragging its feet, not understanding that in reality, it was incredibly difficult due to the moving target.

I also liked Omar’s quip about pricing.