{"id":8373,"date":"2014-01-24T16:15:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T21:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8373"},"modified":"2014-01-24T16:15:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T21:15:15","slug":"the-demise-of-quarkxpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/24\/the-demise-of-quarkxpress\/","title":{"rendered":"The Demise of QuarkXPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2014\/01\/quarkxpress-the-demise-of-a-design-desk-darling\/\">Dave Girard<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2014\/01\/21\/girard-quark\">John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2014\/01\/quarkxpress-the-demise-of-a-design-desk-darling\/\"><p>As the big dog of desktop publishing in the &rsquo;80s and &rsquo;90s, QuarkXPress was synonymous with professional publishing. In fact, it <em>was<\/em> publishing. But its hurried and steady decline is one of the greatest business failures in modern tech.<\/p>\n<p>Quark&rsquo;s demise is truly the stuff of legend. In fact, the story reads like the fall of any empire: failed battles, growing discontent among the overtaxed masses, hungry and energized foes, hubris, greed, and... uh, CMYK PDFs. What did QuarkXPress do&mdash;or fail to do&mdash;that saw its complete dominance of desktop publishing wither in less than a decade? In short, it didn&rsquo;t listen.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Girard (via John Gruber): As the big dog of desktop publishing in the &rsquo;80s and &rsquo;90s, QuarkXPress was synonymous with professional publishing. In fact, it was publishing. But its hurried and steady decline is one of the greatest business failures in modern tech. Quark&rsquo;s demise is truly the stuff of legend. In fact, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[295,30,32,739],"class_list":["post-8373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-quarkxpress"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}