Adobe Sues Apple over lack of performance
Posted by Matthew on Saturday September 7, 2002 @01:47AM
from the unknown dept.
Matthew writes: Adobe filed suit against Apple today citing Apple’s recent performance problems as a significant factor in the less than stellar sales of InDesign 2.0.
“When we started working on InDesign, we applied our Moore’s Law calculator to our project timeline to determine exactly how much bloat to include in the code. To make a long story short, Apple has violated Moore’s Law, and they need to know that their software vendors aren’t going to put up with it.”
Lawyer for Apple released this statement: “Firstly, Moore works for Intel, so his law is not enforceable in our architecture. Secondly, while admittedly Intel has pulled ahead, that’s Motorola’s fault, and we can’t comment on that due to our pending lawsuit against them. Thirdly, InDesign is a bloated sack of shit, and no amount of processing power is going to change that.”
While Adobe does not contest Apple’s assessment of InDesign, they counter that Microsoft Windows XP is also a bloated sack of shit, but that a Pentium 4 3GHz machine runs it pretty well. “And that’s the heart of our lawsuit.”