Fess up, once and for all: you bought what you bought. Don’t try and infuse the decision with a posterior injection of high-falutin’ morality If Windows made more sense to you in 2002 you would have bought Windows. Apple is a company, not a religion: please stop playing the martyr card.

I am talking about the general trend in Apple’s direction: dumbing down the OS X for the sole purpose of making it look and feel like the iOS mobile system, getting rid of features for pros in favor of features for clueless computer newbies, getting out of the professional market (for example, killing the XSERVE line of hardware, the infinite wait for the new Mac Pro with Thunderbolt etc., etc., etc.).

Mr. Cook and his board of shareholders simply decided that there is much more money to be made in the mass mobile market, so they are stopping catering to the pros who had helped them avoid bankruptcy in the most difficult years (remember DTP?).

I have been an Apple fanatic for more than 15 years, but I am seeing now an unmistakable trend in Apple’s direction: out of the pro market and in to the clueless amateurish Facebook/Tweeter market. Out with the computers, in with mobile gadgets. This looks scary for me. I have no doubt that the post-Jobs Apple is nothing more than a money-machine operated by shareholders and accountants.

That said, the Adobe’s direction scares me, too. But as of now, there is no better choice for me.

Additionally if you have experience with any other Adobe program it cuts the learning curve dramatically.

The new Mercury Performance Engine also just creates a great experience and finally utilizes all the resources available on today’s high end machines.