One missing Mac OS X app
Tags: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Cheetah, design, Mac OS X, Macromedia Flash, publishing, QuarkXPress
Mac OS X v10.0 “Cheetah” – the first of the big cats
Even amidst the recent talk of Apple rejecting apps, there’s no doubt that the sheer variety and scale of applications available in the iTunes App Store has fueled the sales of the iPhone and iPod touch. The iPhone is great. The applications make it even better.
On a related note, when the first version of the Mac OS X (”Cheetah”) was released in 2001, Apple made a big deal about the fact that most major applications from OS 9 had been ported to the new operating system. Unfortunately for Apple there was one core group of users — a group of users quite loyal to the Mac platform — that was reluctant to upgrade because one core application hadn’t been ported to OS X.
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Dec 14, 09 at 11:15 amQuarkXPress 6, the first version to support Mac OS X, was released in 2003. Quark owned around 90% of the market share for professional page layout software in the late 1990s. In delaying the release of an OS X-compatible version, Quark lost some market share to Adobe’s emerging page layout application InDesign and began to reduce the price it charged for QuarkXPress in 2004.