Adobe Reader 9 vs. OS X Preview 4.1 - Which Is The Best PDF Viewer?

5 Apple does a pretty good job of making a third-party software applications redundant. Safari is now a better than good-enough browser that one can use it as their Web-surfing application without looking elsewhere. The combination of Text Edit and Pages pretty much eliminates any compelling need for third-party word processors. Ditto for Numbers vs Excel. iPhoto is a fine image organizer and OS X Mail a very respectable email client, although Apple doesn't really have anything to compare with Photoshop Elements, Pixelmator, and Acorn in the mid-range image editing department. Then there's bundled OS X Preview vs Adobe Reader. Is there any point in bothering with Reader anymore, now that Preview is such a capable application? A month or two ago I would have said probably no. Or at least I hadn't bothered much with Reader more... [read full story]