On Oct 7, 2007, at 9:35 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote: > Doing as well by whose standards? Yours? Are you over there > managing and building the product that earns as much money as > Photoshop does and is used by tens of millions of people across the > globe, many as the basis of their entire livelihood? And the > measure of success here is a year? A whole year to wait for a > native build! Heaven forbid that Adobe have a lot of other things > all happening at the same time than to drop everything already into > the pipeline to make sure that a native OS X version of Photoshop > could ship immediately after OS X ships.
The measurement I'm using is the ability of thousands of other applications that are ready for release by the time the new OS comes out, or shortly thereafter (within a month to a few months, not over a year). Yes, most are less involved, some just as involved (e.g. Final Cut Pro, Quark XPress). Are you saying that Adobe doesn't have dedicated resources for each of their applications? That the same team who develops Illustrator, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Flash, are the same team that develops Photoshop? That an application as important as Photoshop with 10s of millions of users worldwide, some of whom make their entire living off of Photoshop doesn't have its own dedicated development team? If the application is that important, shouldn't they have dedicated resources? Shouldn't it be a high priority to make it one of the first releases? I know first hand how corporate decisions go and how that can make a shift in development priorities - I've been there dozens of times. If you make a decision to delay your product for whatever reason, resources, strategy, etc. then that's your decision to make. The primary consequence is that you don't sell as many as early - income from that product is delayed. The point is that it's not Apple's fault that Adobe took over a year after the OS release to release a native version of Photoshop. Should Apple have delayed the newest release of OS X until Photoshop was ready? Of course not. Should Adobe have released a buggy, not ready for prime time version of Photoshop a month after the OS release to make a the market? Of course not. But sue Apple because it took Adobe over a year to release a native version of Photoshop, for whatever reason, or combination of reasons. That's Adobe's responsibility, not Apple's. Just the same, don't blame Target for the screen reader companies lagging behind a year or more in technology. That's the screen reader companies' decision and issue, not Target.com. > >> Apple has built accessibility into their OS. While it might not be >> Jaws, OS X has native accessibility features built into the OS and >> has for years. Just look under the system preferences panel. > > If you are implying that OS X has adequate accessibility > functionality, then I presume you also believe the lawsuit on > Target.com is baseless since OS X obviously does what's needed to > help anyone using the Mac deal with the web on the computer itself. Adequate? Not really in my book, but they are at least including accessibility functionality, which is a step in the right direction. Personally, I don't think Apple's accessibility functionality is totally adequate, nor do I think the screen readers are adequate. But then again, I rarely think any current solution is adequate, since I believe we can just about always do better than we actually do. Cheers! Todd Zaki Warfel President, Design Researcher Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully. ---------------------------------- Contact Info Voice: (215) 825-7423 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: http://toddwarfel.com ---------------------------------- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
