#Editing and Editors
21-Jan-95 21:36:46
Sb: #2127-#Editing and Editors
Fm: Wayne Cole 76370,621
To: Alberto Tabone 100014,3425
Alberto,
With Mac's market share slipping 2% per year (down to 8% of the market now) and
with more and more vendors porting to windows (Adobe PhotoShop being a big one
for Video Graphic suppliers), the advent of the IBM PowerPC line in Qtr3 '95,
and the strong showing of the Alpha based machines in graphics and animation,
it is possible that Macintosh could end up going the way of teh Amiga sometime
in the '96 – '98 time frame. In fact, if Alpha interst is just a flash in the
pan and is not maintained and expanded, inspite of supporting WindowsNT, DEC
could also go under in the next couple of years. And a company like Avid, you
can bet, is not going to be unaware of those trends and planless with respect
to them. In addition, they would not announce any R&D/Prototypes on other
platforms as it would hurt sales of the current product ("I'll wait for the IBM
PowerPC WindowsNT version insted of getting the mac version….").
Maybe your resume needs updating… :^}
wmc – via Autopilot!