December 5th, 2005

Todd Dominey noticed (via Colin Moock) that Adobe has finally made public some of their plans for the future of Macro­me­dia prod­ucts, now that the 2 com­pa­nies have merged. One of the first orders of busi­ness? Merg­ing the acro­bat reader and flash player, cre­at­ing an end all - be all con­tent deliv­ery plugin. I just get the sink­ing feel­ing that this prod­uct will be bloated, slow, and fugly. I’m still curi­ous to see what is to become of the rest of the Studio suite, as I hon­estly like most of Macromedia’s tools (espe­cially since Studio 8) more than Adobe’s bloated apps.

I bought Studio 8 about a month ago, and it’ll be inter­est­ing to see what hap­pens to free­hand, fire­works & golive/dreamweaver. I can see them sell­ing some of these apps to another devel­oper or can­ning them out­right. Hope­fully golive is mar­keted as an entry-​level web cre­ation tool and dreamweaver can still stick around for those that use it. Only time will tell, I suppose.

Let the fea­ture creep begin!

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One Response to “Adobe to Merge Acrobat Reader and Flash Player”

1. Daniel Andrews says:
   January 3rd, 2006 at 12:10 pm

   Now it looks like they are not going to com­bine the two play­ers into one, just add func­tion­al­ity over time into one major mega run­time … but keep putting out flash and acro­bat plu­g­ins seper­ately.