Re: Adobe and the Mac platform : was: "Adobe buys Macromedia "? 2005-04-19 - By Andrew
Back
Adobe's CEO has publicly annouced that he would prefer to develop only
for the dominant OS. So, this is a real concern to Mac users.
For example: Adobe's video softwares, which considers of 4 products,
has only 1 that is usable on both platforms. The other 3 are PC-only.
Adobe is already pushing away from Macs, but this acquition is
something that will speed up their withdrawal.
AWBenson
--- In Carrara@(protected), Michael Rothman <michael.rothman@(protected)>
wrote:
> 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:
>
> >
> >
> > Bob Stockwell wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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