Much more interesting to me than Apple vs Adobe is Macromedia vs Adobe. Adobe was once a seriously great company (Jobs apparently talked wistfully about those days in his Q&A), which together with Apple pretty much created desktop publishing and everything that goes with it (like Photoshop, Illustrator, PostScript, PDF, PageMaker, InDesign). The world would be a much worse place without it. It started going off the r…
- Photoshop from Thomas and John Knoll
- PageMaker from Aldus
- FrameMaker from Frame
- Flash, Flex, Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, et al. from Macromedia
O.K., Illustrator was developed in-house, but you can almost call that a PostScript editor. And PDF is a more portable version.
I don't know the development history of Premier. A copy of Avid?
Well, I'm sounding pretty negative about Adobe as a tech innovator (I actually preferred the Macromedia vibe), but I've still paid my bucks for Creative Suite, and I'm a fan of their (mainly well-designed) tools.