We have a better class of ebook reader now, however. Amazon’s Kindle, Sony’s reader and iRex’s Iliad all have faults, but they have an expanded toolset more suited to the increasingly wireless and converged world where we not only want content on the go but see no need to restrict it to just books.

The complaints are actually a skewed compliment to Apple and completely vindicate their approach. The users who want multitasking on their iPhone consider it more of a little computer than just a mobile, especially with so many cool things to do that are so easy to access and use.

From their enviable position of almost 100% market share, Quark Inc either didn’t see the writing on the wall or were caught napping while Adobe closed ranks around them, buying or further developing the other major applications in the graphic designer’s toolset such as Illustrator and Photoshop.