thenextweb.com— There has been a lot of talk about Apple?s aggressive stance towards Adobe lately. So, here is my list of reason why it is only logical that Apple will acquire Adobe.
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Be careful what you wish for. Do you really want all Adobe's programs to be Windows only? Or for PDF to be closed and alternative readers and writers to be sued out of existence?
Apple pushing towards a standard(HTML5) is cause for alarm. I purchase Apple because of the polish of their proprietary devices, the iphone has not been polished. Best computers, mediocre everything else.
@fandyllicYet most of them are industry standards, so they're obviously better than the competition.And on my Win7 PC i have no stability issues with any Adobe CS4 product i use.Also, you failed to mention Illustrator.
but again HTML5 isnt going to be a realistic solution for people to code in commercially for a good few years.yes i know about the IE6 funeral, trust me, i'm a web-dev professionally and i hate and loathe IE6 as much as the next man and wish every day that it would vanish and track it's usage stats almost obsessively....but i also know several of our clients who are not allowed to upgrade their browsers and wont be allowed to for some time yet...government and other large institutions for example.i'm not AGAINST html5, i just know that as an industry its not a viable alternative yet, and apple deciding not to support it will NOT be a nail in its coffin, there's just too much that it can do far easier and better and for a greater audience than the alternatives.I'm all for HTML, script and CSS solutions where possible, but i'm still going to be building our video players (for example) in flash because i KNOW that my visitors will be able to see it....under 10% of my sites visitors use HTML5 compliant browsers and its going to take a LOOONG time for this to change. see my first comment, this is the REAL WORLD. As much as our ideals would have us produce ONLY standards compliant code etc, commercially you cant behave like that.my point about IE6 was that it's taken us...what...5 years(?) to consider IE6 as "dying"...and despite the 'funeral' it's not dead yet. We also need to wait for IE7 and 8 to die yet before we can support ONLY html5 solutions, so that's another 5-10 years (ish)
Screw that.I love my Adobe designer suite and I don't have time or money to waste on the over priced hardware of Apple products when my PC is faster and cheaper. Adobe is the academic standard in most designer schools (I'm in one) and they make content for all platforms. That wont happen if Apple buys them, remember Apple shut out Adobe because they want more control of apps.Screw Apple. The ONLY reason they got big back in the day was because of Designers preference but now designers have options like do I buy the $1999 Mac or the $800 PC. Their iproducts are a cash cow that they purposely make obsolete every month. Have you ever seen the graveyard of ipods? its surprising how much they remind you of gameboys isn't it.
jbondMar 5, 2010
Be careful what you wish for. Do you really want all Adobe's programs to be Windows only? Or for PDF to be closed and alternative readers and writers to be sued out of existence?
fandyllicMar 5, 2010
How is that a conflict of interest?
pika2000Mar 5, 2010
1. Imo WebOS is the one (vs iPhone OS/Android) that does task switching right.2. Rubinstein is there already
caniblazeMar 5, 2010
Apple pushing towards a standard(HTML5) is cause for alarm. I purchase Apple because of the polish of their proprietary devices, the iphone has not been polished. Best computers, mediocre everything else.
exeprimeMar 6, 2010
@fandyllicYet most of them are industry standards, so they're obviously better than the competition.And on my Win7 PC i have no stability issues with any Adobe CS4 product i use.Also, you failed to mention Illustrator.
specialleeMar 6, 2010
@GothAlice, while yes, I do tend to use photoshop for graphic-based work... there is a reason it's called "Photo"shop.
jimv1983Mar 6, 2010
Not sure why people are digging you down. that sounds pretty accurate to me.
jimv1983Mar 6, 2010
Because the UI on OS X sucks. Mac's are like Fisher Price's My First Computer.
Closed AccountMar 7, 2010
lol
Closed AccountMar 7, 2010
The installer works fine. What's wrong with it?
designetMar 7, 2010
but again HTML5 isnt going to be a realistic solution for people to code in commercially for a good few years.yes i know about the IE6 funeral, trust me, i'm a web-dev professionally and i hate and loathe IE6 as much as the next man and wish every day that it would vanish and track it's usage stats almost obsessively....but i also know several of our clients who are not allowed to upgrade their browsers and wont be allowed to for some time yet...government and other large institutions for example.i'm not AGAINST html5, i just know that as an industry its not a viable alternative yet, and apple deciding not to support it will NOT be a nail in its coffin, there's just too much that it can do far easier and better and for a greater audience than the alternatives.I'm all for HTML, script and CSS solutions where possible, but i'm still going to be building our video players (for example) in flash because i KNOW that my visitors will be able to see it....under 10% of my sites visitors use HTML5 compliant browsers and its going to take a LOOONG time for this to change. see my first comment, this is the REAL WORLD. As much as our ideals would have us produce ONLY standards compliant code etc, commercially you cant behave like that.my point about IE6 was that it's taken us...what...5 years(?) to consider IE6 as "dying"...and despite the 'funeral' it's not dead yet. We also need to wait for IE7 and 8 to die yet before we can support ONLY html5 solutions, so that's another 5-10 years (ish)
mrcoldheartMay 6, 2010
Screw that.I love my Adobe designer suite and I don't have time or money to waste on the over priced hardware of Apple products when my PC is faster and cheaper. Adobe is the academic standard in most designer schools (I'm in one) and they make content for all platforms. That wont happen if Apple buys them, remember Apple shut out Adobe because they want more control of apps.Screw Apple. The ONLY reason they got big back in the day was because of Designers preference but now designers have options like do I buy the $1999 Mac or the $800 PC. Their iproducts are a cash cow that they purposely make obsolete every month. Have you ever seen the graveyard of ipods? its surprising how much they remind you of gameboys isn't it.