"Microsoft is the competitor"
http://news.com.com/2030-1046-5190097.html?tag=cd.top
"But when I think about competitors, there's only one I really worry about. And it's one that happens to have $35 billion in revenues and $50 billion in the bank. And it happens to be in the software business. Microsoft is the competitor, and it's the one that keeps me up at night."
-Bruce Chizen
Unfortunately there's no comment about how he feels about Apple, but I think it's a good sign overall.
"But when I think about competitors, there's only one I really worry about. And it's one that happens to have $35 billion in revenues and $50 billion in the bank. And it happens to be in the software business. Microsoft is the competitor, and it's the one that keeps me up at night."
-Bruce Chizen
Unfortunately there's no comment about how he feels about Apple, but I think it's a good sign overall.
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Now, Chizen is hoping to remake Adobe again--betting that by combining the core electronic document capabilities of its Acrobat products with a new collection of server-based products, Adobe Systems can become a major supplier of application solutions to enterprises.
Whatever you do, don't put major effort into your existing products fellas.
Meanwhile, we get to partner with all Microsoft's enemies because we're a great alternative and we don't really compete head-on with any of its big competitors. That's our strategy against Microsoft.
And yet Adobe is supporting non-Microsoft platforms, the Mac specifically, less and less as time goes by.
The company has never been able to move Picture It above the consumer level.
So what if it's a consumer level product? If you are going to attack Adobe, you don't start at the consumer level where Adobe doesn't really compete.
Everything we do is based on Adobe's imaging model and rendering engine--that layer between the operating system and the application that allows us to express information in a way Microsoft has trouble figuring out.
Very old world thinking. By the time your precious functionality is present in the OS (along with OS level filters al la Audio Units) and applications compete on interface, not features, what then Adobe?
Barto
PS I hate Adobe.
Originally posted by Barto
PS I hate Adobe.
I have no affinity for them, but I don't hate them. I just read all the time that Adobe is leaving Apple and it will be the death of Apple. So, this looked to be a sign that the opposite might be true. Perhaps it is all hot air.
Originally posted by bunge
I have no affinity for them, but I don't hate them. I just read all the time that Adobe is leaving Apple and it will be the death of Apple. So, this looked to be a sign that the opposite might be true. Perhaps it is all hot air.
the only one hurt would be adobe, look at their income, thier marquee money maker is photoshop, and if that went windows only.....
Originally posted by a_greer
the only one hurt would be adobe, look at their income, thier marquee money maker is photoshop, and if that went windows only.....
they'd be screwed.. i'd laugh.. and I would enjoy using Apple's replacement to Photoshop.
Originally posted by MacUsers
they'd be screwed.. i'd laugh.. and I would enjoy using Apple's replacement to Photoshop.
I use and have no problems with Photoshop. But Apple has both typographic and imaging capabilities built into a rock solid OS now.
Combine that with Colorsync and Apple quick-build Cocoa capabilities and it's easy to see an Apple PhotoEffects Pro driving Adobe out of yet another market.
And this time, it'd be their biggest money-maker at risk. Adobe's far better off supporting their Graphics line on Mac and Windows, and launching a counter-offensive against Microsoft in the business forms arena.
Originally posted by a_greer
the only one hurt would be adobe, look at their income, thier marquee money maker is photoshop, and if that went windows only.....
I don't think that would happen overnight, but they can use their market power to continue to push Mac users to the Windows side. If they ever decided to limit Mac features, then I imagine a lot of professionals would jump ship.