Adobe + Macromedia = together forever?
How did this come as a surprise? What will happen to my photoshop, my illustrator, my flash and my dreamweaver?
I have always viewed Macromedia as on the bleeding edge, the teenage one, the rebellious one winning ladies over with its sleek style. Yet just not popular enough. But Adobe is the more stable one, the one that always delivered what we needed with documents speaking equally to both sides of the table, the reliant one who I could rely on to erase people\’s faces. Too popular, but classic. So what will happen now?
To me, it seems like almost a perfect man!
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I won\’t get into analyzing your analogies, but what I\’m curious about is what\’s going to happen with Macromedia Fireworks since it is a Photoshop competitor.
My guess is they will morph into two new programs: one specialized for photographs manipulations (Photoworks), and one for graphic design and all the other funky stuff (Fireshop).
Dreamweaver and GoLive will also combine into one piece of software that will read your mind with a chip that\’s implanted into your brain. Then you can create a webpage based on anything you saw that day. Of course, it\’ll be called something like, Go Weave a Live Dream.
A perfect man with a beer gut from too many competing products ;) O.o look at the pretty firetrucks, second time this week :0
there will be one suite to rule them all…
one uniform ui. my bets as to what survives:
photoshop (no brainer)
illustrator (freehand had no market share)
flash (de facto interactive web standard)
go live AND dreamweaver (dreamweaver has more market share, plus there\’s coldfusion, but, go live is adobe\’s ego baby)
it just doesn\’t make sense that they keep marketing all the adobe and macromedia apps, since they directly compete against each other.
to be honest, i think it\’s a good thing. adobe and macromedia have been puffing up their libraries with too many extraneous apps, imo.
i just think it\’s weird they will be called adobe systems. it\’s like adobe $y$tem$