I'm an early adopter of the iPod, and I can't imagine how I got through the first 29 years of my life without one. I've supplanted my everday use of my 15GB 3G iPod with my Shuffle, which provides the soundtrack to 50% of my PSP usage (games).
The other 50% of my PSP usage is for movies, and I've been using my PSP to watch a host of MP4s in the past several weeks with round-trip travels from East Coast to West Coast.
When I get tired of playing Lumines, I've been watching Ali G, Lewis Black, Chapelle Show -- you'd be amazed how much you can fit on a 512MB Memory Stick when you compress video down to 15fps. The quality still remains remarkably nice on the PSP.
I use PSP Video 9 (http://www.pspvideo9.com/) to encode my video files and it's awesome.
Did Adobe kill off a competitor, or did it just make itself more of a challenge to be taken over by someone else?
Piper Jaffrey and UBS have both stated that the key to Apple's continued growth is in software (http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/04/12/firm.on.ap ple.software/), and with Final Cut Pro, Motion and Soundtrack, Apple seems to really be cleaning Adobe's clock with their video software.
Apple can't compete with Photoshop at the professional level, but Adobe's lack of support for the core image functionality in Tiger could prove disasterous for continued adoption, if Apple decides to jump into the Photo editing arena and go head to head, as Final Cut Pro did with Premiere.
If Apple's "Pages" application takes off, how difficult would it be to publish out of Pages with the appropriate rights management features to a PDF format? Apple could then *potentially* compete with InDesign?
With open source efforts like MTASC (http://www.actionscript.com/index.php/fw/1/toward s-open-source-flash-development/) compiling.SWF files on OS X without the Flash IDE, how hard would it be for Apple to step in and build their own development environment for Flash content?
The point of my questions is simply this: I'm not worried about Adobe's support for the Mac. Apple seems to be able to find partners who will develop with them -- or they will buy/build a product themselves and outdo the competing product. So Adobe will either bring their A-Game in enhancing these products for Apple, or risk being outdone (or bought out).
I think it will be challenging for Adobe to adopt a products they don't know how to market or maintain.
There are a host of Macromedia products that aren't in Adobe's current product strategy. Adobe builds creative tools (and development tools if you count GoLive).
Adobe isn't known in the server market. With that reasoning, I think it's going to be interesting to see how the ColdFusion, Flex, Flash Remoting and Flash Communication Server survive.
At least with Flash Comm Server, Adobe has some natural workflow they can use to expand on it -- like direct encoding and upload from Premiere for better video, and publishing video with alpha layers for use in Flash 8.
I, for one, am giddy as a schoolgirl armed with the knowledge that Adobe's superior.swf making tool will absorb make the promise of Flash 8 look like Flash 4!
Maybe even Flash 5 -- it had functions!
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I'm an early adopter of the iPod, and I can't imagine how I got through the first 29 years of my life without one. I've supplanted my everday use of my 15GB 3G iPod with my Shuffle, which provides the soundtrack to 50% of my PSP usage (games). The other 50% of my PSP usage is for movies, and I've been using my PSP to watch a host of MP4s in the past several weeks with round-trip travels from East Coast to West Coast. When I get tired of playing Lumines, I've been watching Ali G, Lewis Black, Chapelle Show -- you'd be amazed how much you can fit on a 512MB Memory Stick when you compress video down to 15fps. The quality still remains remarkably nice on the PSP. I use PSP Video 9 (http://www.pspvideo9.com/) to encode my video files and it's awesome.
He also said this is the movie the haters have been waiting for since Phantom.
Dude, Affleck was the BOMB in Phantoms, yo!
Ponder this for a second...
p ple.software/), and with Final Cut Pro, Motion and Soundtrack, Apple seems to really be cleaning Adobe's clock with their video software.
d s-open-source-flash-development/) compiling .SWF files on OS X without the Flash IDE, how hard would it be for Apple to step in and build their own development environment for Flash content?
Did Adobe kill off a competitor, or did it just make itself more of a challenge to be taken over by someone else?
Piper Jaffrey and UBS have both stated that the key to Apple's continued growth is in software (http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/04/12/firm.on.a
Apple can't compete with Photoshop at the professional level, but Adobe's lack of support for the core image functionality in Tiger could prove disasterous for continued adoption, if Apple decides to jump into the Photo editing arena and go head to head, as Final Cut Pro did with Premiere.
If Apple's "Pages" application takes off, how difficult would it be to publish out of Pages with the appropriate rights management features to a PDF format? Apple could then *potentially* compete with InDesign?
With open source efforts like MTASC (http://www.actionscript.com/index.php/fw/1/towar
The point of my questions is simply this: I'm not worried about Adobe's support for the Mac. Apple seems to be able to find partners who will develop with them -- or they will buy/build a product themselves and outdo the competing product. So Adobe will either bring their A-Game in enhancing these products for Apple, or risk being outdone (or bought out).
It's such a niche tool, but there's a whole lot of corporate training that's *still* built with Authorware.
I think it will be challenging for Adobe to adopt a products they don't know how to market or maintain.
There are a host of Macromedia products that aren't in Adobe's current product strategy. Adobe builds creative tools (and development tools if you count GoLive).
Adobe isn't known in the server market. With that reasoning, I think it's going to be interesting to see how the ColdFusion, Flex, Flash Remoting and Flash Communication Server survive.
At least with Flash Comm Server, Adobe has some natural workflow they can use to expand on it -- like direct encoding and upload from Premiere for better video, and publishing video with alpha layers for use in Flash 8.
I, for one, am giddy as a schoolgirl armed with the knowledge that Adobe's superior .swf making tool will absorb make the promise of Flash 8 look like Flash 4!
Maybe even Flash 5 -- it had functions!