hypoluxa

Eric_WVGG said:

majorsl said:

It would be awesome if AI did an article series for equivalent to Adobe [product name] with both paid and open source alternatives. Our University got the same letter and we have Adobe on so much, it'd be nice to try and get our users to try alternatives.

This would be a great article. While waiting, I can suggest a couple:

Photoshop Pixelmator Pro. Unlike Photoshop, which is full of clunky cross-platform Adobe Air code, Pixelmator is a real Mac native app. The performance is just bewildering. Affinity Photo looks promising but I don't know much about it.

Illustrator Affinity Designer. Illustrator also has the drawback of having huge chunks written in freakin’ Java. Slow and decrepit UI, inconsistent not only with Mac but the rest of the Adobe "suite." Affinity Designer is modern, native, and full-featured. I am unsure if the color separation features are as robust as Illustrator, unfortunately. CorelDRAW also has a new native Mac version (and, subjectively to me, a better UI, but that's very controversial), not many reviews thus far. Inkscape has okay word of mouth but it kind of smells of GIMP to me.

InDesign Affinity Publisher. Still in beta. tbh I'm skeptical that it will be competitive out of the gate, but worth a look.

Lightroom Apple Aperture. haha just kidding


The biggest drawback to switching, in my experience, has nothing to do with features or performance or cost, but everything to do with familiarity. Artists don't like to retrain themselves to use different tools. I know countless graphic designers and artists who simply can't handle the mental hurdle of retraining all their keyboard shortcuts. It's a miracle that the industry managed the switch from Quark Xpress to InDesign…

StrangeDays said:

hypoluxa said:

bobolicious said:

Like the HP Slice? www8.hp.com/us/en/elite-family/elite-slice-desktop.html ...and again we have those words "based on proprietary connectors"...

I bet this is what they will introduce. Just look at the Mac mini and TV, they clearly are inspired by that design, 

Wait, are you claiming the Mac mini, which was originally released in 2005 and redesigned in 2010 as we know it now, is based on the Elite Slice, which came out in 2016? How does that work?

bobolicious said:

Like the HP Slice? www8.hp.com/us/en/elite-family/elite-slice-desktop.html ...and again we have those words "based on proprietary connectors"...

delreyjones said:

narwhal said:

wozwoz said:

"Mac shifting to ARM may come as soon as ..."  ... ore more likely, it may not. 
It's a dumb idea that breaks the Windows compatibility that has been Apple's hook into bringing people over from the dark side, and will involve huge amounts of angst for everyone, with no 'noticeable' difference (other than your software won't work). By noticeable, it needs to run 40 times faster for anyone to care. 

Have you noticed what software is popular on Windows? Chrome, iTunes, Office, Adobe CC, anti-virus, torrent software. All of these are on macOS too. I have a feeling the people running Windows VMs on Mac are the geekier among us; and it's not the potential audience Apple desires for Mac. (Apple is content with geekier phone users buying Android, and regular folks buying iPhones.) If Apple produces chips running twice as fast as Intel's at lower cost, that would be fast enough to be noticed. Forty times faster would be better though, you're right.

I also think macOS devs won't have much trouble with a recompile unless Apple drops AppKit and goes UIKit-only on the new chip.

I think you're right.  I suspect that when Apple went from PowerPC to Intel, serious Windows users were an important component of Apple's strategy.  In contrast, I suspect that today, serious Windows users are rather inconsequential as far as Apple is concerned.  (Of course I might be wrong :=)