Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by zabalmendi » Mon, Sep 22, 2014, 8:09 PM UTC

Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary
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Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by samsolomon » Mon, Sep 22, 2014, 8:22 PM UTC

I have to worry every time Adobe makes an acquisition. Seldom do the products improve.

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by trimetric » Mon, Sep 22, 2014, 8:34 PM UTC

samsolomon wrote: post #2

I have to worry every time Adobe makes an acquisition. Seldom do the products improve.

I don't think they've screwed up Typekit at all.

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by radley » Mon, Sep 22, 2014, 8:42 PM UTC

trimetric wrote: post #3

samsolomon wrote: post #2

I have to worry every time Adobe makes an acquisition. Seldom do the products improve.

I don't think they've screwed up Typekit at all.

Is that a joke? For me, it's now intrusive: I can't turn off Typekit notifications and suggestions, even though I use Suitcase Fusion.

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by wldcordeiro » Mon, Sep 22, 2014, 8:44 PM UTC

samsolomon wrote: post #2

I have to worry every time Adobe makes an acquisition. Seldom do the products improve.

Flash Professional improved. Typekit improved and I would say Behance has improved. I know it's cool to crap on Adobe but they've gotten a lot better in recent years.

EDIT Changed Illustrator to Flash Professional. Forgot which was an acquisition.

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by Xeoncross » Mon, Sep 22, 2014, 8:49 PM UTC

There really isn't any other software to compete at this point. Aviary and Gimp were the only Photoshop competitors. Inkscape and Aviary were the only Illustrator competitors.

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by cpr » Mon, Sep 22, 2014, 8:54 PM UTC

wldcordeiro wrote: post #5

samsolomon wrote: post #2

I have to worry every time Adobe makes an acquisition. Seldom do the products improve.

Flash Professional improved. Typekit improved and I would say Behance has improved. I know it's cool to crap on Adobe but they've gotten a lot better in recent years. EDIT Changed Illustrator to Flash Professional. Forgot which was an acquisition.

You mean Photoshop, not Illustrator, improved? The latter was Adobe's first app and lovingly crafted by Warnock and crew.

(I know, because I saw them with my own eyes. ;-)

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by dbla » Mon, Sep 22, 2014, 8:56 PM UTC

Xeoncross wrote: post #6

There really isn't any other software to compete at this point. Aviary and Gimp were the only Photoshop competitors. Inkscape and Aviary were the only Illustrator competitors.

Is sketch considered more of an Illustrator competitor?

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by jrapdx3 » Mon, Sep 22, 2014, 9:00 PM UTC

samsolomon wrote: post #2

I have to worry every time Adobe makes an acquisition. Seldom do the products improve.

Perhaps even more troublesome, seems Adobe is buying out a company that provides or could develop competing software. Judging by discussions here there's been a lot of dissatisfaction with Adobe's retrenchment to "cloud-only" SaaS policies, and alternatives are sparse.

Likely it's not accidental that there's essentially no competition in the professional graphics software arena where Adobe products dominate. This acquisition gives the appearance of Adobe trying to maintain its monopoly, and I'm inclined to think it's not really a healthy development.

Re: Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

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Post by liquidise » Mon, Sep 22, 2014, 9:04 PM UTC

samsolomon wrote: post #2

I have to worry every time Adobe makes an acquisition. Seldom do the products improve.

Though the adoption has fallen, ActionScript 3 was a near strict improvement over 2, and it was released a good while after the Macromedia acquisition.