Adobe and the Mac platform : was: "Adobe buys Macromedia "? 2005-04-19 - By Michael Rothman
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Hi folks,
I think Bob's fear about Adobe dropping development plans for the
Mac platform is way, way, way too premature.
Why would Adobe do such a thing? After all, Adobe products on the Mac
platform are used by a substantial percentage of the creative arts
community and that means steady income for Adobe. Furthermore,
Microsoft continues developing its Office Suite in Mac versions, and I
never heard of the people in Redmond turning their backs to a vigorous
revenue stream. (This discussion does remind me of Mark Twains's quip
"Reports of my death are premature" (I'm paraphrasing)).
Best wishes,
Mike Rothman
On Monday, April 18, 2005, at 11:29 PM, Bob Dawson wrote:
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> Bob Stockwell wrote:
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> I think we can count on Adobe dropping development of Photoshop,
> Illustrator, InDesign, etc. for the Mac within a year to two years at
> the latest. This would effectively kill the Mac platform, leaving
> Microsoft and Adobe as the only real players on the planet.
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> This is not a good thing. When choice is removed, we all suffer. Even
> those people who now use only PC's, with only Adobe products, will
> suffer because of the loss of Macromedia and Macintosh. Sure, they are
> on the dominant platform already, and may not see the value of those
> two doomed companies now, but wait until they're gone and the
> balancing factor of choice is removed. It won't be a pretty world.
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