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The sky is falling! Wonderfully negative reports regarding Adobe's
decision to make the latest version of Premiere a Windows-only
application might make people think that Apple is going the way of
the dodo (for the umpteenth time).
To be absolutely fair, the article in c|net, Adobe
Pares Mac Support, was less sensational than the one pointed
out by Mac Daily News ("Adobe latest to abandon software versions for
the Mac"). Check out the Mac
Daily News piece for the scoop on that one.
There are two possible reasons why Adobe isn't going to offer Mac
versions of Encore and Premiere. One is, as the articles hint, that
it's just not cost-effective to produce the software for the Mac. The
other is that Apple's products are simply better, and Adobe can no
longer compete against them.
While I could be a hopeless romantic and say that Apple's products
are so superior that people are migrating to them in droves, it's
more likely that the pie is simply too small for everyone to get a
piece.
To be honest, I'd be more concerned about this if Premiere was the
only top-end video application available for the Mac. It isn't. Users
have alternatives.
Now there's no doubt that there are people out there who are
aghast at the thought of losing Premiere, and they have three
options. One is to move to another video editing application. The
second is to move to Windows. Neither proposition is cheap, but I'd
hazard to guess that Mac users will likely stay with the Mac rather
than tossing out their hardware and software and starting from
scratch.
The third option is to stick with the current version of
Premiere.
In any event, shouldn't this be considered a good thing in some
ways? Every cloud has a silver lining after all. Usually, when a
major competitor steps out of the building, things improve for those
who remain. People seem to like Microsoft's monopoly for some reason,
after all.
While Adobe is a large enough company to pursue its profits
elsewhere, I'm a little less benign about Apple's foray into software
when it's the little guy who gets hit. Karelia software is a good
example of this. Their Watson
application was clobbered when Apple introduced Sherlock 3.
This type of cloning hurts the little guy who isn't as capable of
weathering storms as large companies are. For example, many people
are speculating that Keynote is only the first application in Apple's
long-term bid to produce an alternative to Microsoft Office. Where
will that leave apps like Mariner
Write?
Just last week Casady &
Greene closed their doors after 19 years in the Mac market.
SoundJam, their MP3 player, was axed when the developer created
iTunes for Apple. Conflict Catcher is only useful with the classic
Mac OS. Spell
Catcher X has to compete with OS X's built in spell checking
facilities.
While some people will look upon Adobe's exit from the Mac video
editing market as a serious problem, Adobe is simply making a
business decision. This decision will likely have few serious
repercussions on the Mac market.
Now, if they pulled Photoshop, that would be something to worry
about.
Stephen Van
Esch is the founder and president of
the
E-learning Foundry, an online training
resource for Mac users. Steve loves the Mac and is doubly bilingual,
since he's also fluent in Windows and French.
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