Comments on: QuarkXPress 7: Quark's Last, Best Hope

by: Pariah S. Burke

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:20:32 +0000

Stuart,

“Maybe it would start a little price war where the customer is the wilnner”

InDesign is already less expensive than QuarkXPress. InDesign CS2 US$699 retail; QuarkXPress 6.5 retail US$945.

If you buy Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium (incl. Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro, GoLive, and InDesign) the gap in pricing grows even larger.

Customers are the winners—both in terms of features and capabilities as well as price point.

by: Stuart Penney

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:38:28 +0000

If Adobe wanted a quark killer, then it should reduce the price of their “new” program to $99.
Maybe it would start a little price war where the customer is the wilnner

by: Quark VS InDesign » Pfeiffer Agrees With QuarkVSInDesign

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:25:29 +0000

[…] In an editorial yesterday on Publish.com, Andreas Pfeiffer, founder of the The Pfeiffer Report on Emerging Trends and Technologies, echoed the opinions expressed by Quark VS InDesign.com on the significance of the upcoming QuarkXPress 7 release to the war between Quark and InDesign for market dominance. “ Quark is hard at work trying to catch up with its increasingly popular rival. […]

by: marco

Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:22:37 +0000

I really enjoyed reading this article. I visit this site every now and then, not just to read the news, bus also to read Pariah’s opinion. @Pariah: It doesn’t matter what you say, there will always be someone who does not like what you say (or how you say it). If he/she thinks they can do better: By all means, let them start their own blog.

On topic: I must say, back here in The Netherlands InDesign is really doing very well. All the creative people and the technicians (like me) adore InDesign and its possibilities.

by: Samuel John Klein

Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:57:40 +0000

I coudn’t agree less.

The post was fine reading that I enjoyed greatly. Personally, I’m not ready to call the war but Pariah feels differntly and explains why. By recounting the various areas in which Quark must measure up we have a point-by-point explanation of why each area matters.

And also, the style of the post is quite in line with the general, slighly bombastic style of the blog in general.

At least I’m having fun with it.

by: Andrew

Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:57:01 +0000

no i think joe has a point. Seriously re-read your post. You repeat yourself so many times. You offer no insight into the new quark or indesign.

Heres a synopsis.

If quark fails it falls to the way side like pagemaker. If quark succeeds then it succeeds.

by: Pariah S. Burke

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:38:21 +0000

It’s called “editorial,” Joe.

Do we have a problem I’m not aware of? Is there a reason you show up on all my blogs to attack me? If there’s some personal issue between us, please let me know what it is.

by: Joe Clark

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:10:28 +0000

Was there even any content or news to this posting?