Why Steve Jobs wants to kill Adobe

“To say that Steve Jobs can hold a grudge is like saying the Pope wears funny hats,” Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry writes for The Business Insider.

“And this why the Inner Daemon blog supposes one reason Apple has gone to war against Adobe is probably thanks to a decision Adobe made almost 15 years ago to focus on Windows as its main platform,” Gobry writes. “There could be something there.”

Gobry writes, “In 1996, as Apple looked doomed, Adobe decided to focus on the Windows platform. Even as Apple became resurgent again and OS X was introduced as a very compelling platform, Adobe snubbed it… By 2006, when Apple had been turned around and was fully resurgent, with the Mac as the platform of choice for creative professionals and an increasing number of people, Adobe still focused on Windows first, and was complacent in porting its products for the Mac.

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Source: MacDailyNews