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Why Apple Should Acquire Adobe

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. Re:Why? by Ucklak · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wait...
    The only company that should even consider buying Adobe is MS - they are the ones with the track record of buying crap and making it better

    Like what?

    Hotmail?
    Giant?
    Bungie? <--Not crap when acquired
    WebTV?

    Unless you meant better crap like crappier

    About the only thing is quality merchandise with their name on it is computer accessories like mice, keyboards, and speakers and sometimes the trinkets they give out at their pow wows.

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  2. Re:As long as they dont do... by falcon5768 · · Score: 0, Troll

    BUT the PC commodity hardware also breaks down faster, which is not something you want in a production environment. Our printer actually went over to PC right at the OS X switch, rather than staying with OS 9 and the Mac. In 2 years he was back due to how fast they where going through backup machine after backup machine.

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