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To: Doren who wrote (25251)	6/25/1999 5:27:00 PM
From: FruJu	Respond to of 213174

To me, it seems that either Apple is abandoning the high end or just can't get it together with Motorola/IBM. Maybe casual web surfers sitting behind iMacs are where the $$$ is, I don't know. I'm sure Apple knows which side of the bread their butter lays on. Why else would Jobs say "the content and publishing market" over and over and over again? So the problem here lies squarely in Motorola and IBM's court, perhaps compounded by Apple's decision to put their ball squarely in Altivec's court. If Motorola had shipped the G4 when they were originally supposed to, Apple would now be sitting well atop the PC performance charts, particularly in Photoshop, Premiere, Director etc. Instead, they're struggling to maintain a slim margin over the Intel 550MHz Pentium IIIs and now the AMD K7s. Let's not even mention multiprocessor systems! :(

To: Doren who wrote (25251)	6/25/1999 5:32:00 PM
From: Murrey Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213174

Doren...I hear you! My disappointment is with the strategy now under way at Apple. Their migration to an appliance for the rest of the world is under way! They seem to have forgotten the ones who brought em to the dance – the graphics community. While my company is 100% Mac, I'm in the process of transitioning to the Wintel community. I've got no other choice. A classic example of where the rest of the graphics world is, with Apple: Adobe Acrobat is releasing version 4.0 simultaneously to the Mac and PC platforms. The release for the Wintel application has more features in it than the Mac release!!!!!! It used to be the other way around. I will not cut my nose to spite my face but, I can assure you, that I'm not the only professional who can see the writing on the wall. I would advise you, as a person entering the graphics field, to keep all your options open. Good luck!