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What applications do you think would benefit from Apple buying them?
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Shareware, specifically. What applications do you think would benefit from Apple buying them?
My vote is for VueScan. Apple should hire Ed Hamrick and purchase VueScan. They could make it like many of the other features and give any application the ability to scan driectly into a document, especially PDFs.
And given the plethora of scanners and devices that VueScan supports, Apple would instantly have driver support for litterally hundreds of scanners. You could just plug in any old scanner (SCSI or USB), open up Preview or iPhoto, and start scanning.
It'd be perfect for iPhoto! Even though people have digital cameras these days, everyone still has those photo albums and shoeboxes full of classic photos.
If Hamrick had all the money and time he needed, plus a dev team, VueScan would be an absolutely outstanding application and an incredible feature for OS X.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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THe problem with Apple is that most of their homegrown apps are pretty bad until version 3.0
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"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!"
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Apple should purchase LaunchBar and incorporate that as a "feature" in 10.5 Leopard
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Join Date: May 2001
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It's not shareware but... either Blizzard or Valve. If for nothing but brand recognition.
If they bought out Blizzard, stuck the Apple logo on all of Blizzard's games, and made the Mac the "suggested" platform (something like the Powered By nVidia campaign) Apple would make huge strides with casual audiences. From there Blizzard could be pretty much left to what they do best.
If they bought out Valve they could do the same thing, and also acquire Valve's Steam platform, and start working on doing to online software sales what they did to online music sales.
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Once you wanted revolution, now you're the institution, how's it feel to be the man?
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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It's not shareware, but I'd vote for MS Office 
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Originally Posted by leehotti
DirectX.
*crickets chirping*
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Uhh, hmmm... not shareware but I think they should really look at a co-branded Photoshop. Other than that, I'd say, uhh, maybe some OmniGroup stuff, I dono...
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StarOffice -- Sun has the key to cracking the MS monopoly molding away in a dungeon.
Intellisync or Pocketsync or whatever. Syncing to mobile devices is way way buggier and kludgier than it ought to be.
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"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." -- Hunter S. Thompson
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Originally Posted by thunderous_funker
StarOffice -- Sun has the key to cracking the MS monopoly molding away in a dungeon.
Intellisync or Pocketsync or whatever. Syncing to mobile devices is way way buggier and kludgier than it ought to be.
Indeed.
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Transmit. Apple needs to have a better FTP interface built in.
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2008 iMac 3.06 Ghz, 2GB Memory, GeForce 8800, 500GB HD, SuperDrive
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Norton Anti Virus.
Uhm, no, wait 
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The WordPerfect Suite from Corel would be most excellent. Afterall, it was available on NeXTSTEP. Either buy WordPerfect from Corel or acquire Corel and take their IP.
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Liberty - Free Markets - Peace
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Originally Posted by milhous
The WordPerfect Suite from Corel would be most excellent. Afterall, it was available on NeXTSTEP. Either buy WordPerfect from Corel or acquire Corel and take their IP.
Why!?
iWork is the 2nd most popular Word Processing after office.
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