Why Apple Should Acquire Adobe 410
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.'"
Bundle with Quicktime!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Imagine an app that takes over ALL file extensions on every windows box, makes it impossible to look at any image, any document, and any web page!
I always thought that the fact that iTunes/Quicktime basically destroy windows PCs was a calculated move. I could never understand why Adobe Reader had a simmilar effect. If you could do the same to Flash it would be the last nail in the coffin for the home user of Windows. Since he who controls flash controls the civilian entertain-web, I would be surprised if there was not a google, MS, Apple bidding war for them. I am actually suprised it hasn't happened yet.
There has been nothing in the past that I have though had the power to kill Windows for the home user than a version of flash that plain does not work right on the PC, like Reader and Quicktime before it.
Why Apple should acquire a REAL Time Machine (Score:5, Funny)
Any other fricken fantasy stories we need to get promoted as actual 'News For Nerds. Stuff That Matters'?
Web Development? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Very interesting, but very unlikely... (Score:1, Funny)
What? Its irrelevant here? Sorry, my bad.
Re:Very interesting, but very unlikely... (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, that'll be rich.
MS Lawyer: Your honor, this deal will create a monopoly for Apple.
Judge: I don't quite see it, please elaborate.
MS Lawyer: Trust us, if anyone knows anything about being a monopoly, it's Microsoft and--
[kicked in shins by Ballmer and Gates]
um, I mean, we have some experience with dealing with other monopolies like Linux, for example.
Apple should buy [insert name] (Score:3, Funny)
Apple should buy Sony [macdailynews.com]. Apple should buy Sun [theregister.co.uk]. Apple should buy SGI [macdailynews.com]. Apple should buy Alias Research [ehmac.ca]. Apple should buy Nintendo [slashdot.org]. Apple should buy AMD [slashdot.org]. Apple should buy PortalPlayer [wikipedia.org]. Apple should buy Pixo [wikipedia.org]. Apple should buy Palm [slashdot.org]. Apple should buy into the 700 MHz spectrum [businessweek.com]. Apple should buy Pixar [cnn.com]. Apple should buy Disney [slashdot.org]. Apple should buy Universal [latimes.com]. Apple should buy TiVo [slashdot.org]. Apple should buy YouTube [gigaom.com].
Apple has bought 2 years of flash memory [apple.com], 50 more acres of land in Cupertino [appleinsider.com], Next [wikipedia.org], Coverflow [wikipedia.org], CUPS [wikipedia.org], Emagic [wikipedia.org], Nothing Real [wikipedia.org], Soundjam MP [wikipedia.org], plus goodness knows what else (feel free to add to this list.)
But Apple buying Adobe?
That'd scare the heck out of a lot of folks. Apple has bought numerous products & smaller companies for code, patents, or teams before but Adobe (+ the former Macromedia) is a peer on the software side. That'd alienate the huge Windows userbase as well as freak out the many Adobe partners.
And to gain what?
Adobe already sells massively to Apple's customers. Sure their apps may lag, but Adobe has a huge set of codebases that has gone through 68000 -> PPC --> MacOS X --> x86, so if getting things up to speed & certified on each new iteration of MacOS X takes a bit that's not unreasonable.
To Mac-ify the apps? Again, why? Sure Apple is famous for doing really good (if not perfect) UIs but Adobe has some serious credibility too. Indeed it's been pretty clear that Apple & Adobe competing directly in some areas has improved both offerings.
Sorry, but I'm guessing Apple has enough on it's plate now. They'd just be complicating an already good, already mutually profitable situation for little reason or much greater profit.
Indeed look at the list above of companies & products folks think Apple should have bought, and in retrospect consider if they really would have been good investments...