Re: Adobe buys Macromedia? 2005-04-18 - By Cecilia Ziemer
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Yeah-- "we don't care; we don't _have_ to..." There's nothing, now,
to keep Adobe contained. Mac users should be damn antsy about this
turn of events--I think we'll be out in the cold faster than you can
say "monopoly"
brrrrrr!
Cec
Bob Dawson wrote:
>This may be the most disturbing news I've heard in a long, long time.
>
>This is a case of the whole becoming greater than the some of its
>parts. Instead of two 800 pound gorilla's becoming one 1600 pound
>gorilla, you have a case where two 800 pound gorilla's become one 3200
>pound gorilla with a really bad attitude.
>
>There were only two major players in the professional graphics world:
>Adobe and Macromedia. All the other content creation programs such as
>Canvas (an excellent program, btw) or Corel are, at best, wannabies;
>they're simply footnotes. Between them, Adobe and Macromedia
>controlled perhaps 95 percent of the market.
>
>With the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe there's now only one
>player in the game. We now have a de-facto dictator in the
>professional graphics world, and that's *NOT* a good thing. Once the
>checks and balances of competition are removed, once the luxury of
>choice disappears, the graphics world becomes a very scary place.
>
>Now the only standards in the graphics world are those from Adobe, and
>they can be changed on a whim. Judging from their history, Adobe will
>not be a benevolent dictator. Without Macromedia to balance them, to
>drive them through competition, Adobe is free to do whatever it
>wants...or doesn't want.
>
>Innovation is going to slow to a crawl, prices are going to rise
>dramatically, and there's nothing you can do about it.
>
>I suspect that, once the takeover's complete, Adobe will no longer
>develop for the Mac platform. Bruce Chizen, head of Adobe, has stated
>in the past that he would rather Adobe develop for only the dominant
>platform (PeeCee/Windows). Adobe has already dropped Macintosh
>development on several applications and, I believe, the rest will soon
>follow.
>
>I find it ironic that the dominant platform for content creation, the
>platform that launched Adobe in the first place, may soon be excluded
>from that very market.
>
>I don't mean to sound like I'm preaching doom-and-gloom: it's just
>that I have been an Adobe watcher for many years (yes, I do use their
>products), and I know their style.
>
>As a Macromedia FreeHand and DreamWeaver user I view this as a very
>sad day for those of us who make our living as designers,
>illustrators, web developers, etc. The only thing I can say to the
>rest of you is be afraid; be very, very afraid, because the world
>we've known is no more. The world without choice we are now entering
>will be a very bleak place.
>
>With trepidation,
>Bob Dawson
>
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