Adobe and Apple's Recent Announcements

Watch the MacWorld keynote - The iPhoto demo starts about 35 minutes in. It's getting very close to what Elements once was. Cool Blade Runner-style zoom and pan.

Adobe ought to rethink how they approach the entry level photo collection and editing market before Apple puts a sizable dent into their revenue stream with the Mac mini and iPhoto 5/6/etc. Adobe wants you to use one or two pieces of software to do what iPhoto does in version 5 - and the Adobe software isn't nearly as well integrated.

All they can think about how to do is how to be like Microsoft. They keep killing or hobbling Mac products like Framemaker and Premiere because they are certain that they cannot compete with Apple - so they decide to write software for what appears to be a platform now beginning to lose it's dominance. If it's taken Adobe this long to move to a very Windows-centric business (since 1995 or so, when they really started trying)...

Adobe, you are going to have to innovate hard to survive. It's not looking good from where this Photoshop user sits. Apple is shipping a $599.00 computer that a video camera owner can use to create high definition DVDs - WITHOUT BUYING A THING EXTRA.