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And Another One Down (1/15/04)
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Okay, so as Mac users, we're now (or soon will be) swimming in new music software; how about some sweet, sweet sugar for the pixel-pushers out there? Well, sadly, the news on the graphics software front is sort of going in the other direction: faithful viewer mrmgraphics tipped us off to a Macworld UK article which reveals that CorelDraw Graphics Suite is now officially kaput for the Mac. No more development, time to say bye-bye. So if you're a big user of CorelDraw, Photo-Paint, or R.A.V.E., now's the time to commence the grieving process so you can zip right though denial ("No! Not CorelDraw!"), anger ("NO!! NOT CORELDRAW!!"), bargaining ("Anything but CorelDraw!"), depression ("Boo hoo, no more CorelDraw..."), and acceptance ("Oh well, what's on TV?") and start considering alternatives.
Corel's reason for transitioning CorelDraw Graphics Suite into a Windows-only product is that "Corel has not experienced that much demand for this product from Mac users." Reportedly "96 per cent of Corel Graphics Suite sales have been of the Windows version" and "the ten per cent of sales to Mac users were insufficient to justify Mac development." 96% of the product's sales are of the Windows version and 10% are of the Mac version? Okay, we may not exactly be math whizzes down here, but even we're pretty sure that there's something wrong with this picture. Suppose they've also found that a further 37% of total sales were of the Playstation edition and 209% were of its immensely popular port to the Etch A Sketch platform? Man, it's a good thing they don't make spreadsheet software or anything.
Wait. They do?
Well, does anyone buy it? Because seriously, they really should hear about this 96% + 10% thing. Then again, they're Windows users, so why would we care? Moving on...
While the discontinuation of the Mac version of CorelDraw may sting the software's few users a bit, the good news is that Adobe is ready and waiting to take their money. We're guessing that Corel's low 10% (or 4%, or whatever the heck it really is) Mac user percentage is because just about everyone working in graphics uses Photoshop and Illustrator instead. And if you're dependent on other Mac-native Corel products, don't worry-- the company "has no plans to end development of its remaining Mac products." So it's not going to turn around and cancel our version of Bryce, for example. Or WordPerfect.
Um... Huh.
You know what? All of you Painter users might want to prepare yourselves for that whole grief thing too. Just in case.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 1/15/04 episode: January 15, 2004: There's a whole slew of Mac music software coming down the pike; prepare to get jiggy with it. Meanwhile, Corel cancels Mac development of Corel Graphics Suite, and IDC reports that Apple's Mac shipments declined in 2003 compared to 2002-- but the quarter-by-quarter numbers tell a much more positive story...
Other scenes from that episode: 4445: "The Hiiiiills Are Aliiiive..." (1/15/04) Oooo, wow-- pretty slow news day, wasn't it? We kept waiting for something exciting to happen, but by around 10 PM Eastern we'd started to despair; historically speaking, most arrests of high-tech CEOs for drunkenly inciting a food riot in the aisles of a Circle K happen before 6 PM local time, so apparently Steve wasn't going to help us make with the drama... 4447: Warning: Math Alert! (1/15/04) Oh, for crying out Pete's sake-- we just said we aren't math whizzes, and yet now we're going to have to bust out the calculator anyway just to convince you people that Apple isn't about to collapse into insolvency or something...
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