New and Noteworthy: Why no PowerPC support in Soundbooth?; "Why I Sold Apple"; more

Why no PowerPC support in Soundbooth? In a post to his blog, Adobe Senior Product Manager John Nack attempts to justify the company's decision to make Soundbooth an Intel-based Mac-only product. "Here's the reality: Apple's migration to Intel chips means that it's easier to develop for both Mac and Windows, because instead of splitting development resources optimizing for two different chip architectures, you can focus on just one.  That's all good, and it makes Mac development more attractive. Users benefit from having developers' efforts go elsewhere (features, performance tuning, etc.), rather that into parallel, duplicate work. In the case of Soundbooth, the team could leverage Adobe's expertise in building great audio tools for Intel chips (namely Audition) to bring the app to market faster and with a richer feature set. Now, if you were Adobe and had started developing a new application at exactly the time when Apple told you, 'This other chip architecture is dead to us,' would you rather put your efforts into developing for that platform, or would you focus elsewhere?'" More.

"Why I Sold Apple" Tim Beyers of The Motley Fool is one of the few people currently dumping Apple stock. His explanation: "My problem is best summed up by a blistering rebuke of Jobs delivered by my Foolish friend and colleague Seth Jayson three weeks ago. At the time, Seth wrote that Jobs and Apple's management offered a too-little, too-late apology for gruesome options backdating practices of which Jobs was aware, and which appear to have transferred wealth from shareholders to members of his executive team." More.

Making a Case for Apple Software in the Workplace The E-Commerce Times polls some analysts about the place for Macs in PC-dominated workplaces. "Macintosh software remains very viable for small business and enterprise  users, according to Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio. This is especially the case for vertical applications targeting graphics, art, marketing and advertising professionals." More.

Previously on MacFixIt

• .Mac: New Webmail interface launched, some limitations; continuing connection problems
• Microsoft Office 2004 11.3 (#10): More appointment scheduling issues/time zone discrepancies; Problems accepting meeting request
• Problems sharing Internet connections, fixes
• MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo (Late 2006) (#3): More on why units are limited to 3 GB RAM
• QuickBooks Pro: Crashes when playing sounds (cont.): Fixes
• 15" PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz hard drive failures

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