Adobe turns back to Mac... again.

gerbick · #1 March 23rd, 2004, 03:56 PM

don't hate me... I'm just the messsenger wondering what you guys think. Personally, I don't see any harm... it's only Framemaker.

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Adobe Systems announced on Tuesday that it plans to drop the Mac version of FrameMaker, the latest sign of eroding support for the Apple Computer operating system.

read about it here

Ripcord · #2 March 23rd, 2004, 05:34 PM

Just more evidence that 4% market share is unsustainable. It's a downward spiral - the apps won't stay if the users aren't there, and the users won't stay if the apps aren't there...

Ripcord · #3 March 23rd, 2004, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by gerbick

don't hate me... I'm just the messsenger wondering what you guys think. Personally, I don't see any harm... it's only Framemaker.here

Then it's ONLY After Effects (who uses that anyway?), then ONLY Acrobat Reader (hey, we have preview!), then ONLY Powerpoint (Keynote rocks!), then only all of Office (well, there's um, OpenOffice and the rumored Apple suite), then Dreamweaver (hey, there are BETTER products for the Mac...right?), then ONLY Photoshop (erm...), then the entire Macromedia Suite and Quark (ack)...Then not too long after that:

In the news today, Apple was finally disolved as a division of Sony. The remaining developers will work on Apple's remaining product legacy, the "SoPod"

serpicolugnut · #4 March 23rd, 2004, 07:47 PM

Hmm. When I raised some concern awhile back about Adobe cancelling Premiere, I was shouted down as an alarmist by many on this forum. "Adobe will never cancel Photoshop" was a line that many shot back with.

Well, consider this: Adobe cancelled the Mac version of FrameMaker - and kept the Solaris version. Do you honestly believe there are more Solaris FrameMaker users than there are Mac users? I doubt it.

Just to clarify - I'm not saying Adobe is going to cancel the Creative Suite for the Mac any time soon, but you can bet your bottom that Adobe is seriously looking at ways to consolidate costs and boost revenue. Cancelling the Mac versions of Premiere and Framemaker did just that.

I just hope that Apple has some good replacements in the que for the day that Adobe cancels some of the more critical Mac apps - Acrobat, GoLive, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

jhawk28 · #5 March 23rd, 2004, 09:29 PM

Corel is doing the same thing.

Joshua

gerbick · #6 March 23rd, 2004, 11:51 PM

I've always thought of CorelDraw as an OS/2 and Windows Vector app - my first introduction to CorelDraw was 2.5 or so. and Illustrator just seems like such a Mac Vector program... meaning, they just both fit the OS they were on when I tried it.

As far as Encore, Adobe saw that they couldn't go up against the more widely used apps on the Mac. A move, as a stockholder, I could agree with. Same for Framemaker - that's one acquisition that never quite made sense to me. But to assume that Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign are next... that's speculation.

Randman · #7 March 24th, 2004, 01:05 AM

Adobe has recently updated many of the apps in Creative Suite. A big difference in weeding the less-profitable items out and promoting the big money ones. Creative Suite has been a big $$$ maker for Adobe. Next some alarmist will say that Adobe is cancelling PageMaker and it spells doom for the Mac platform.

jarinteractive · #8 March 24th, 2004, 01:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Randman

Adobe has recently updated many of the apps in Creative Suite. A big difference in weeding the less-profitable items out and promoting the big money ones. Creative Suite has been a big $$$ maker for Adobe. Next some alarmist will say that Adobe is cancelling PageMaker and it spells doom for the Mac platform.

Didn't Adobe already announce that they are cancelling Pagemaker? Not just for mac, but for all platforms...InDesign is the replacement.

-JARinteractive