Why Apple Should Acquire Adobe

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 2, 2007 @05:14AM from the maybe-one-day-they'll-care-about-games-too dept.

aabode writes "OSWeekly.com's Brandon Watts suggests that Apple should acquire Adobe. Why? 'While Apple has done a great job of developing media applications for beginners (the iLife suite is a good example of this), they could use a boost on the professional side. Granted, Final Cut Studio has become the standard when it comes to professional video editing, and Logic Studio is a great professional solution for editing audio, but what about the graphics and Web design segments of the market? If people want tools to support these interests on the Mac, then they turn to Adobe.'"

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Apple makes everything bad by r1n530uT · 2007-11-02 05:30 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Adobe software is slow but great. If apple bought it, it would be slow and bad, doing nothing revolutionary and costing like 5 times more than it's worth. but it would come in a funky steel box so people with more money than sense would be happy to buy it so they can show off to their mates at the crayon shop.
Standard by kylegordon · 2007-11-02 05:43 · Score: 0, Flamebait

"Final Cut Studio has become the standard"? Yes, maybe for the home market. The bigger stuff is still dominated by heavyweights such as Harris/Leitch and Avid.