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"With the addition of Safari: competition with IE, Mail: competition with Outlook, Preview: competition with Acrobat, iChat: competition with Instant Messenger in OSX, It seems that Apple doesn't care about Apple's "most important" developers." All these programs are "free". Adobe doesn't earn money selling Reader... it gives it away to extend the PDF market. Apple's Preview does the job just as well, with less effort on Adobe part. Ditto for Outlook, Internet Explorer, AOL IM. "Competition" works very differently in this situation. The programs discussed here (which Apple charges for) are a different case. AppleWorks competes against the various * Offices and *Works. Keynote is aimed straight at PowerPoint. iDVD competes with other DVD authoring solutions. Etc., etc. I've heard a lot of complaints about Apple muscling in on third-party software even when they "play fair"... here people are asking Apple to leverage it's operating system to "play dirty". I think Apple is doing the right thing... Keynote is a great program (I purchased it academic price because it enabled me to create more effective, more visually stunning presentations, and is well worth the investment.) and people are buying it and it can make a great impact on its merits alone. Same for iDVD, same for all the other great software Apple now sells and will develop. Marcin Jeske