01-07-2016, 09:31 AM
Adobe has given us PostScript, which gave us the DTP revolution with the Mac in the 1980's. Derived from that they gave us PDF, which is what the graphics engine of OS X and iOS is based on.
They have PS, they broke up Quark's monopoly in the DTP area on Mac and Windows by bringing an alternative to the awfully buggy Quark Xpress with Adobe Indesign. The amazing Calamus SL DTP software for Atari (ST/TT) never made it on other platforms).
So far so good.
But Adobe also has done some nasty things. They bought Golive Cyberstudio, a (back then) great web development program, to compete with the popular but lesser Macromedia Dreamweaver (with the renamed Adobe Golive). Then they bought MacroMedia (Dreamweaver, Flash, Freehand). They then let Macromedia Freehand die in favor of their own Adobe Illustrator, a big shame. They let Golive die a slow death.
Apple picked up a team from Macromedia that was working on video editing software and developed Final Cut Pro. That angered Adobe so much (they had a big part of that market till then with the back then awful Adobe Premiere) that they threatened to drop PS for the Mac "because of the low marketshare" of Mac OS X (disregarding that PS on Mac had s much bigger share than PS on Windows).
I always disliked that they forced Photoshop upgrade sales with ACR, by making new camera RAW files only convertable with a new version of ACR which only works with the newest PS version. I also disliked the crazy high prices they asked for PS and such. Now you have to rent the software, something I have something against too.
So yes, I have a love/hate for Adobe. I use PS CS6 because of the layers in PS. The software has gotten so complex that it is very hard for new competitors to emerge.
That is why I am enthusiastic to see Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer, powerful software with a chance of becoming a real competitor.
They have PS, they broke up Quark's monopoly in the DTP area on Mac and Windows by bringing an alternative to the awfully buggy Quark Xpress with Adobe Indesign. The amazing Calamus SL DTP software for Atari (ST/TT) never made it on other platforms).
So far so good.
But Adobe also has done some nasty things. They bought Golive Cyberstudio, a (back then) great web development program, to compete with the popular but lesser Macromedia Dreamweaver (with the renamed Adobe Golive). Then they bought MacroMedia (Dreamweaver, Flash, Freehand). They then let Macromedia Freehand die in favor of their own Adobe Illustrator, a big shame. They let Golive die a slow death.
Apple picked up a team from Macromedia that was working on video editing software and developed Final Cut Pro. That angered Adobe so much (they had a big part of that market till then with the back then awful Adobe Premiere) that they threatened to drop PS for the Mac "because of the low marketshare" of Mac OS X (disregarding that PS on Mac had s much bigger share than PS on Windows).
I always disliked that they forced Photoshop upgrade sales with ACR, by making new camera RAW files only convertable with a new version of ACR which only works with the newest PS version. I also disliked the crazy high prices they asked for PS and such. Now you have to rent the software, something I have something against too.
So yes, I have a love/hate for Adobe. I use PS CS6 because of the layers in PS. The software has gotten so complex that it is very hard for new competitors to emerge.
That is why I am enthusiastic to see Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer, powerful software with a chance of becoming a real competitor.