Comments on: Will someone do to Photoshop what InDesign did to Quark?

By: ianbetteridge

ianbetteridge — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:36:16 +0000

Yeah, Apple could do it (probably by buying in some promising tech from someone else, as they did with FCP and pretty-much every other application they own). But I'm not sure I'd want them to do it.

The idea of Apple controlling the hardware, the OS, and most of the pro application software would make me nervous - it would be like taking a step back into the mainframe era, when you bought IBM hardware which ran an IBM OS and IBM software - and nothing else.

By: THOMAS

THOMAS — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:44:12 +0000

Apple could do it, especially since so much image manipulation's built into Core Image. Pixelmator is a reasonable attempt from a tiny company. Problem is that Photoshop really still has some unassailable features that are pretty damn useful.

By: paulpod

paulpod — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:17:07 +0000

Apple? The properly did in Avid (and Adobe Premiere) with Final Cut Pro (bought in from Macromedia if I remember correctly?)

By: ianbetteridge

ianbetteridge — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:17:45 +0000

Possibly not

By: Will Davies

Will Davies — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:23:48 +0000

Are you sure it's that Chares Arthur?

By: Nathan Pitman

Nathan Pitman — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:41:18 +0000

It's not just InDesign that has people narked... Fireworks is also in desperate need of competition (http://nathanpitman.com/567/an-open-letter-to-s...).

By: Hywel

Hywel — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:57:25 +0000

I don't use PS/CS, but this is pretty much what I though on reading that Adobe had raised their already inflated UK prices when the £ is recovering against the $.

Yep. Adobe seem to be taking the piss, and they need a good kicking.

Also agree that Apple doesn't seem like the right company to make a CS killer.