Uh-dobe.
Hey Adobe, how’s about you go back to making great tools for people to JUST CREATE STUFF rather than trying to control the WHOLE path from conception to delivery? Leave the server software to server software companies (and kill ColdFusion already). Get over trying to get everyone to use Flash to deliver media that does not NEED to be in a proprietary container (which is all Flash does for video). Just give content creators great tools that disappear in the operator’s hands and allow them to concentrate on the work and not worry about the tools/software crap. This may include a new HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript authoring tool that can (eventually) replace Flash. ‘Cause you don’t make any money from the plug-in, but you DO make money from the authoring tools. Flash media server? WTF is that? And why the hell did you buy Business Catalyst? They were doing just fine without you, but now they’ll probably whither up and die in your arms.
Reminiscing…
Examples of your former tool-forging glory would include:
- Photoshop 7 (coincidence that it’s the last one to support Mac OS 9?)
- Illustrator 8 (10 was good too)
- After Effects (anything before it was named “CS”)
- Let Dreamweaver go back to being a hardcore coding app (make something new for WYSIWYG web page creation, which you are already doing, thank you very much)
- Let Flash DIE already (every version has SUCKED BALLS)
- Ok, Lightroom is pretty good.
