Little Things
In a geek world, little things matter. For us—we are Mac geeks, right?!—things matter especially if they come from (or at least are somehow related to) Apple.
Little things that were delivered to the Pixelmator Team Factory this week:
Love all that cheerful stuff.
They may be little but I’d like a few of them!
China produced a lot of stuff again (things to be worthless in just a few years)
Jealous! :)
I love the design of the Apple battery charger. Getting small presents is great! I just got a small present by discovering the “drag to increase tolerance” of your software’s eraser to clear out the background of image.
I’m curious if iPad and iPhone 4 are for personal use or… maybe for testing puropses?
I wonder who sent them!
I think you should have a contest where you give the stuff away to the nice people who leave comments. =D
aaaaaw Final Cut Studio! = )
I’m curious about the iPhone 4 and iPad as development tools as well, but I’m more interested in the “Mac OS X Server for Dummies” book. Are you guys planning an online version of pixelmator?
I’m also interested in developing for the Mac OS X. I’m still learning Cocoa, and hope to be ready to start developing soon. I have an idea in my head what I want to do, it just needs laid out on paper. Unfortunately, i don’t have any brothers to team up with (only sisters), and no friends available as of yet. Hopefully as I start development, i’ll find someone. So, anyways, I was wondering how you guys got your start, and how you became successful with Pixelmator.
Is it Plxelmator Team Ltd’s team desire to be able to do what Photoshop does and even more in a simpler, easier to work with program, and to one day even surpass what Adobe’s c—ware is capable of doing now? (Rhetorical question, only!)
I personally like the fact that there are no immediate–if ever–plans to release a Windows version and that one must have Snow Leopard or later. In other words, Pixelmator is an IE program written expressly for Macs and will, as time goes by, be truly the IE program of choice by Mac users.
And, unless one can purchase PS with an educator’s discount or can even get it for free, one still ends up with Adobe bloatware, whatever the cost. The fact that Pixelmator has the capability to open and work with PS files in many instances, and what I would imagine “many instances” will soon change to “in all instances”, for Mac users, there would be absolutely no reason to use anything other than Pixelmator.
Once Pixelmator has the number of Plugins that have been created over the past for PS and you open up supporting CMYK and vector files, and have it do things that Adobe’s developers could never even imagine, and even strengthen your current strengths, you will have it made.
And the best news of all is that if one purchases Pixelmator in the Mac App Store along with iPhoto, and Aperture, catapulted by superior Plugins, even the most amateur IE user will be able to use a powerful IE without the drudgery of spending countless hours just getting to understand what it is capable of doing let alone learning how to use it. It won’t be too long before Pixelmator will be all that most IE users need and Pixelmator will be still yet another reason that the sale of Macs will increase exponentially–all because it will have been built from the ground up only for Macs.
As long as Pixelmator continues to grow in its capabilities without all the bloatware of PS, it can only be a no-brainer for Apple to continue to improve the quality and capabilities of iPhoto and Aperture
It’s nothing less than a Win-Win situation for everyone!
Keep up the good work, and always concentrate on listening to your expert IE-using Amateurs and income-dependent Professionals, develop Pixelmator versions with few to no bugs, provide updates when bugs are found (it’s inevitable) and build a strong relationship with Apple so that the combo of Pix, Aperture and iPhoto and great plugins from other third-party Companies–AND MOST OF ALL, KEEP IT EASY TO LEARN AND USE. Then, Amateur and Pro users alike will beat the proverbial path to your door. And most importantly price it for its true value; i.e., pricy enough that will justify its true value but low enough so that anyone can afford it.
JUST “GO FOR IT” AS ANOTHER COMPANY “SLOGANIZES”! And, you will know you have made it into the big leagues when there will be an “Idiot” book published for each version of Pixelmator released, and Scott Kelby and Deke McClelland will be your official spokespersons and can only vomit at hearing the name Adobe or Photoshop. What imagery!