Adobe Speculation
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- ********0
I don't know how some people think just because the two companies merge, somehow illustrator and freehand will merge too.
When Microsoft bought Lotus, what happened? they just destroyed it.
I dont think freehand has patent on having multiple pages. I'm sure the programmers at Adobe are smart enough to introduce it if they wanted to.
- jkosoy0
I agree with Kuz. Just because Micrsofot and Adobe both make money off of selling software does not neccessarily mean they're selling to the same demograph of people.
That'd be like saying Toshiba is competing against Disney because they both are somehow involved in the home video market. Or something.
Meanwhile, my fear at the moment is the whole EA Sports syndrome: Where, with nobody pushing Adobe to create new awesomeness in each version, they can delay or hold back features for the sake of making money on future versions.
But really, this is probably all about Flash.
- jpea0
the only good thing i see coming from this is us spending a little less money cause we can get out shit from 1 creative suite vs. two vendors.
other than that, not too excited.
- gruntt0
britney spears is pregnant.
- Jaline0
like omg! no way! whoa!
- johndiggity0
market revenue, not share, i apologize:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/…the key word from chizen is growth and industry standardization. i really don't think there would be riots if the pdf was the defacto electronic print document we could all ftp to the printers. and i also forgot you are all communists. and hate free enterprise anway.
- IRNlun60
there'a only one reason Adobe bought Macromedia....
F..L..A..S..H..
especially with broadband being available to the masses in the near future. yeah you can call it a monopoly but its a smart move on Adobe's part. Can't beat them , buy them.
- ********0
ha yeah, complaining against monopolisation means we're communists.
//We should all celebrate consolidation and monopolisation because that's what free enterprise is actually about.
the right-wing twat rears his head.
- johndiggity0
kuz you are a shithead.
- ********0
thanks john, but you're clearly an idiot
if a product becomes a standard because its the best product - that's the good thing
if a product becomes a standard because the company that produces it has destroyed competition that's a bad thing
buying up potential competitors is destroying competition.
you shouldn't let your political beliefs cloud your judgement.
and all because i said "freemarket system is corrupt".
ha
- johndiggity0
what's your problem? you cannot see that these 2 companies are do not appeal to the same market. adobe makes there money from print based applications and macromedia's bread and butter is the web.
these 2 areas are converging and now there is one unified company that is ready to handle the growth of our industry. everyone used dreamweaver anyway, now you'll probably get it in the next creative suite instead of golive. that means instead of having to buy quark, the cs suite and macromedia studio, we will be able o plop down $500 and upgrade to eveything we really want for a lot less than we were paying and have the satisfaction of knowing it's all going to be able to work seamlessly together.
it's the same plan apple has when it designs it's software packages to work on it's systems.
i don't see anything that is bad with this dal. you are the one politicizing it becuse of your distaste for the corporate world.
- toastie0
there's such a thing as competition, john, and competition makes other companies make better software. When there is only one, they can do whatever they want, because there's no other alternative for their users.
- Elfangio0
Like someone said before:
" A hamer is always a hamer"
- johndiggity0
yeah, fuck it you guys are right. adobe just wants to bend us all over and fuck us in the ass. i forgot, they are a corporation. they don't care about innovation or making their own products better. i mean, photoshop is such a shitty program and really hasn't got any better since version 1. why do they have to keep us down? why do they want to oppress us? fuck the system man! fight the machine!
- rabattski0
wow. didn't know this would upset people that much.
- Elfangio0
there's such a thing as competition, john, and competition makes other companies make better software. When there is only one, they can do whatever they want, because there's no other alternative for their users.
toastie(Apr 18 05, 07:20)
And is there any alternative for photoshop in the market?
- vburo0
print and screen will merge. see e-paper developments.
indesign will become animated.
