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To: clean86 who wrote (92207)	2/17/2010 12:56:42 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

>>It's a very slippery slope here. Apple needs the Adobe CS Suite apps unless they are going to produce there own App that has the power of Photoshop. My guess is that even if they do produce something to replace Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign and Dreamweaver it will be a big deal to move that installed base away from Adobe.<< Sure, Apple needs the CS suite. But Adobe needs the Mac customer base, too.

To: clean86 who wrote (92207)	2/17/2010 1:03:20 PM
From: Doren	1 Recommendation Respond to of 213176

Adobe has some great products... mostly that they've bought from other people. But Photoshop at one time had the golden crown for usabilty. It set the standard, with Illustrator not too far behind. Macromedia's interfaces were terrible. But I have to say for the past several years my opinion of them has changed. They neglected to fix many of the bugs and errors in their software, and bloated the software up. Turned some of it into hassleware. Instead of innovating better tools they've spend their time trying to lock in their customers and squeeze them for upgrade money or get them to buy suites when they only need part of the suite. Their prices are pretty harsh, when you consider that on a product like Photoshop the average user only uses maybe 10% of the app. I personally think that software should be more modular, and I've thought this for some time. For example you should be able to buy just the features you need. I think as time goes on this is inevitable. Who doesn't use freeware and shareware. Software should be modular but it sure is nice when one company designs them and all the moduals work together like Photoshop worked with Imageready. Predictably Adobe has terminated Imageready. There is a balance between doing what it best for your customers and doing what you have to to squeeze your customers to stay in business and companies who tend to do too much of the latter pay for it eventually. I think examples of the latter are: Ford GM Microsoft eBay Sun The place is littered with them.

To: clean86 who wrote (92207)	2/17/2010 8:05:20 PM
From: JP Sullivan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

Apple is going to win the Flash war. As somebody in LA once said "can't we all just get along?" Honestly, I don't see why the big fuss over Flash. It's not as if Apple is going all out to attack the platform. So it's not allowed to run on the iPhone and iPad, so what? As far as Adobe and a whole boatload of users and critics are concerned, it's to Apple's detriment to exclude Flash. There's no need to go to war over this. It would be an unnecessary distraction for both sides. -we-