At this stage I wouldn't even speculate on what motivates Steve Jobs, or what he's fanatical about. And that may have changed since his close brush with the mortality (pancreatic cancer). One detects a change in his outlook.
I don't know that we Mac users are fanatics. I switched from windows a little over a decade ago. I still have Windows machines in the labs here. I like what I'm using now (the Mac) and I have no interest in switching back to Windows. And some of my colleagues switch to the Mac every year, so we are a growing group. On campus there is a very large population of Mac users and the numbers are climbing all the time. But as concerns FrameMaker, I'll change documentation strategies before I change platforms, though I'll miss FrameMaker. I'm a bit of a nut about typography, so LaTeX will probably end up being good for me. It's not fanaticism. It's just preference in a platform to work on day in and day out. OS X provides a really nice work space whether I want to make a movie with some Apple software, or write a shell script in UNIX, or compile some C code for a PIC. It's just a great platform. It's not perfect. I've got my gripes with some things OS X and some things Apple, but on the whole I think it's about as good as it gets out there for usability and power on the desktop. - web At 2:47 PM -0400 4/6/06, Art Campbell wrote: >Too bad Jobs isn't as much a Mac fanatic as Mac fanatics are.... > >Art > >On 4/6/06, Bill Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At 12:41 PM -0400 4/6/06, Stuart Rogers wrote: >> >Bill Briggs wrote: >> >>At 6:02 PM -0700 4/5/06, RJ Jacquez wrote: >> >>>in general I believe that this is a great time to be a FrameMaker >> >>>user >> >> >> >>I'm surprised that a Mac user can say such a thing with a straight >> >>face. I've got 13 years worth of FrameMaker collateral on my Mac and >> >>it's a profoundly unpleasant time to be a FrameMaker user. Yeah, it >> >>works, but with the end in sight it's almost painful to create new >> >>documents with it. The lack of an OS X version of FrameMaker is the >> >>most annoying computing issue I've had in more than a decade. >> >> >> > >> >Don't know if it will be good news to mac users or not... but it was >> >reported in the paper today that "Apple Computer Inc. released new software >> >yesterday that lets users of its newest computers run Microsoft Corp.'s >> >dominant Windows XP operating system." >> > >> >(and therefore Windows versions of FM) >> > >> >http://tinyurl.com/lfp96 >> > >> >I'll leave the mac users to sort out their reactions to that one... >> >> This is preferable to a dual boot scenario. >> http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/04/06/parallels/index.php >> >> - web >> >> P.S. But I still want a Native version. Virtualization is the spawn of evil. >> _______________________________________________ >> > >-- >Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent > and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson > No disclaimers apply. > DoD 358 _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
