04-11-2010, 11:58 AM
M A V I C wrote:
[quote=silvarios]
If I am not mistaken, wasn't Adobe one of the big companies who dragged their feet with Rhapsody, forcing Apple to delay the OS X launch? Wasn't Adobe the very same company who turned down Apple's offer to develop consumer media applications for the Mac platform (which directly led to the creation of iLife)? Isn't Adobe the same company who shipped sub par Flash plug-ins for years (on every platform, especially non Windows, but even Windows Flash has been relatively bad until recently)?
Not really a fan of this example either. It was more of a numbers thing. There wasn't enough Mac users buying Premiere to warrant the development.
Adobe had the print business, and with it, Macs. Video was too expensive for the desktop still, so not developing it "made sense" to Adobe, sure. An easy and safe business decision on their part. But it was shortsighted, we can now see.
According to this, http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tec...41BD1.html there were enough people within Adobe who felt Quicktime for non-linear editing had a future and so, they left. The result was eventually Macromedia's Final Cut Pro.
Midway through that article, you also see some chilling parallels regarding cross-platform development then and now. I doubt Apple's forgotten about that.