Adobe Speculation
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- Mimio0
You've completely stopped making sense rabattski. You seem to very vehement about the fact that you don't know the answer or makes the connections. Good luck with that.
- rabattski0
you so lost me there mimio. what?
- vburo0
I seen this coming from last year...
When a rep from Adobe rep told me...
Its going to be all good...
uhohseangettio
(Apr 18 05, 08:48)is he one of your ghetto friends?
- snuggles0
Adobe has offered to buy my children...What should I do?
- IRNlun60
I guess we should have seen this coming..
"They Adobe shall posses thy macromedia...revelations 4:06"
It's a sure sign of the apocalypse.
- Mimio0
Snuggles,
Apparently there's no reason to be skeptical. It's all good yo.
- Mimio0
Rabattski,
What I'm saying is that they're both trying to monopolize the DTP market for some time and that we(the consumer) have benefited from it.
- rabattski0
and did i disagree with that mimio? i still don't see what i am supposed not to see while i think it see and say it clearly? right?
- uhohseangettio0
I seen this coming from last year...
When a rep from Adobe rep told me...
Its going to be all good...
uhohseangettio
(Apr 18 05, 08:48)is he one of your ghetto friends?
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Naw!
- Mimio0
I have no idea where you stand rabattski, if you agree that competition benefits the consumer, then why would you look at the elimination of competition as a positive thing?
- ********0
Anyone typing things about competition using Windows and typing on a Dell should eat a foot.
Adobe and macromedia had more than a few things in common- yes- so there was a healthy competition- but at the same time they were working on things in complete opposite directions. I feel Adobe will continue to do what they do best and that the apps will only improve- mark my words that the next version of Flash will radically be better than the current with Adobe at the helm.
- Mimio0
In response to John's earlier post...I doubt that Adobe/Macromedia are trying to compete with Microsoft. Macromedia has been partners with MS for last few years doing parallel development (Breeze & Powerpoint, Flash Remoting on MS IIS servers etc.)
- Mimio0
Puter, the next version of Flash (8ball) is almost in the can.
- gabe0
i fail to see how the merger will effect product development any differently?
earlier in the thread, i saw that people were complaining that if there is only one developer of a certain type of product, that the product's growth will suffer because the company can hold back certain features for future versions to make more money...
hello? today, there is only one developer of Flash, and that's Macromedia. tomorrow, there will still be only one developer of Flash, only instead of it being Macromedia it will be Adobe. i fail to see how that's any different than it is now?
i only see this as a good thing; i imagine the industray standard applications (photoshop, illustrator, after effects) will only work together more seamlessly...
- jamble0
I think we're all fucked as authoring software will become so easy to use, every retard with $199 will soon be able to install Adobemacro Ltd super web and graphics megatronic software and publish their homepages and internet websites to share their pictures of their pets and holidays and nobody will want to hire designers because they'll be obsolete.
I'm going to change career again and realise my ambition of being a lumber jack and big game fisherman.
- johndiggity0
it was specualted the ms was going to buy macromedia 3 or 4 years ago.
microsoft owns 80% of the authoring software market. frontpage, publisher... we all know it's shit, but more people use it than all the adobe and mm products combined. you cannot tell me that the new adob is not going to fight for the 80% or the market not using their products.
- rabattski0
mimio, the only issue where we argue about is irrelevant for this discussion.
the whole discussion started where you say that it was quite possible that indesign wouldn't have excisted if adobe would have acquired xpress succesfully.
all my reactions to this are based on a) we never will know because know one here knows the exact facts and motivations behind it and b) indesign already excists so why have a discussion about a situation where it possibly would not have excisted because c) i just refered to indesign as an example and not as a fundamental arquement for this discussion.
for the rest we both agree.
- Mimio0
It'll be the other way around probably. MS might go after the Flash product and the media player war will continue. Other than that I did see any other competitive overlap. We could sit here and speculate all day. MS is obviously going after a different segment than Adobe or Macromedia. Would anybody flinch if MS bought Adobe now?
- johndiggity0
steve jobs would.