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The one category nobody’s talked about when comparing Acorn and Pixelmator: Will the company spam you?

So far, I’ve been spammed by Pixelmator’s partners twice. I posted to their support board asking them if they were aware of this, and they deleted the post. I’ve posted the same question again, on the grounds that maybe (just maybe) they deleted the post by mistake. It’s also possible they didn’t know about the spam runs. Still, it isn’t looking too good.

For those curious, why do I categorize it as spam?

• I never asked for the email.
• It’s bulk.

There’s other factors, too (like I don’t know the company that sent it) but in all honesty, those two are enough to categorize it as spam: It’s unsolicited commercial email.

On the other hand, Flying Meat has never spammed me.

Pixelmator has at this point eliminated themselves from the finals. Looking at the products, it makes me sad that one of them had to win this way. But there’s no way I’m buying something from spamtards.

Here’s a fairly extensive comparison of Acorn, DrawIt and Pixelmator.

But the reason I’m posting is an odd thought occurred to me.

I wonder if Steve Jobs called Adobe and said:

See? This is what happens when you wait years to come to Mac OS X, break with every update, and then drag your feet at going universal. We create a whole @#$%ing Photoshop construction kit right in our OS. How do you like that, huh?

We could go even further. We could say this wasn’t a phone call, but a face-to-face meeting at Apple. And we could go even further, and say that while the meeting was going on Steve arranged for the Adobe rep’s car to be towed, and for him to be tarred and feathered as he left the building.

But, no, probably not. The Photoshop construction kit in Mac OS X Tiger is probably the sweetest revenge.

(With maybe just a hint of car towing.)

The New Wave compares Graphic Converter, Pixelmator, iPhoto, Acorn and Photoshop and comes to the same conclusion I have: Acorn wins, but it isn’t a total blowout.