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GG1 said:

I looked at the goTenna link. It's a VHF/UHF radio "dongle" you carry with you that connects to your phone (via Bluetooth WiFi?) using a goTenna app for texting. The radio dongle does the mesh networking app presumably does the mesh networking with any existing goTenna user within range, and the phone merely is for texting. There is very little technical information, so I am making some assumptions. Nice concept.

It's been a cool device slowing rolling out for a while. Now that Apple has publicly validated the concept, the race is on.

Someone's going to buy goTenna and integrate the service into their Android handset in 3...2...1...

Filemaker Pro remains terrific software, and is one of the few small business apps to really lead on the Mac platform.

That said, I have no idea why - after 31 years - they still haven't gotten around to implementing tags. Would be great and useful.

Apple moved final assembly of this product to China. And it's a product aimed at Hollywood, which is largely anti-Trump.

Expecting a tariff exemption from the Trump administration is incredibly brazen.  

edac2 said:

But you would be much better off switching to Affinity Publisher than a program built on a 1990's framework.

This is just wrong. I use InDesign, but even I'm aware that Quark has been fully OS-native for years, and went 64-bit only a few years back.
The current app is a fully modern one that is now updated on an annual basis.

edac2 said:

Maybe QuarkXPress isn't mentioned here because it is hardly a cheaper alternative to Indesign. Quark is $400 on the App Store; the QuarkXPress Store lists it as $250/year ($750 total) for Indesign switchers. Quark was always full of itself and used to charge $900 for a single-language edition, so I guess it's gone down in price since its glory days.

Yes, the saddest thing is how Quark never got the Steve Jobs memo to "accept the war is over and move on to the Next Big Thing."

Quark had everything necessary to create a low-cost, entry-level InDesign competitor (or just buy iStudio Publisher), and then reposition Xpress as the next step. They could have bought Pixelmator or another Mac-friendly Photoshop competitor and bundled it for free with Xpress. They seem content to just keep trying the same things that haven't worked for the last decade and expect different results.

That's a shame because Quark's current software has really improved and is genuinely Mac-friendly, and because we all lose when Adobe has no real competition.