Followup to “Adobe is Dead”
I’m blogging to you from Aarhus, Denmark - where I’m speaking at the J. Boye conference.
John Dowdell is a thoughtful, long time blogger who works for Adobe/Macromedia. He and others have been commenting on my Adobe is Dead post - as well they should. That was the whole reason I created that post.
Here’s my response to him - and the other posts:
OK - let me make this clear:
1. The whole world is moving to the browser. Aviary proves that effective, powerful media editing can be done in the browser. I don’t WANT media editing on the desktop anymore. That’s that’s that’s that’s just so - so - so 90’s.
2. HTML5 will give Flash a run for it’s money. Silverlight is what Flash SHOULD be - but for a number of reasons, mainly that it’s coming from Microsoft - it’ll never win. But HTML5 “could”.
3. Flash is the epitome of closed.
4. Photoshop is first and foremost - a brand. It represents photo image editing. Not red-eye touchups.
BTW homage to Steve Gillmor on the “dead” slur. In case it’s not obvious, you gotta come out swinging, insult a few people, stir the pot and in general - make a bold time stamp statement - in this chess game. That’s what Steve did with “Office is Dead” and that’s what I’m doing here. This is a crystal ball gazing game - in case it wasn’t obvious.
Marc,
just the possibility of doing things in a browser does not mean that it is the best way to do it. Agreed, there are more things done in a browser today than 10 years ago, but that does not mean that the whole world is moving to the browser. Browser-based solutions have their own set of issues.