textual documents which contain and are interconnected by hyperlinks. Wrong again: the web = hypertext documents, i.e. Alternatively, it might kill competition by discouraging customers from purchasing individual apps from other vendors when their Adobe subscription means they’re then effectively paying twice for the same general functionality, in which case expect to see antitrust suits raised before long. For example, decoupling revenue stream from shrinkwrapped product might encourage Adobe and other ‘big app’ vendors to evolve their unassailably monolithic products into a more flexible component-based platform, allowing users to customize their apps by adding/purchasing just the features they need from Adobe and/or 3rd-parties. In the long run it’s harder to predict how this’ll all play out, and who will win and who will lose.

smaller, more frequent rolling releases of new features and fewer hassles when exchanging files with others (not least since Adobe themselves won’t be motivated to screw about with file versioning simply to drive sales). The Web is merely a mechanism for exchanging resources of every shape and kind the only constant is hyperlinking as the means of discovering those resources.Īll that’s changed at this point is the distribution model, and while the primary motive is obviously financial (steadier income flow and less piracy) it may provide some user benefits too, e.g. The Web != HTML, contrary to what Mosaic and its many blighted descendents would have you behave. Adobe aren’t about to magically poof that vast investment into HTML5 just to be trendy.

We’re talking millions of lines of code (PS alone has 4.5M) and many many millions of man hours over 20 years.

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