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Re:How Sketch Took on Adobe by coldtea on Friday December 14, 2018 @08:34AM (#18680656)
The overall desktop market share is not really relevant, if macOS has a disproportionate share of the designer market.

Which has always been the case. Adobe back when I checked, made something like half of its profits of Suite on the Mac.

John Nack (of Abobe) had commented on 2009:

"Last time I checked, Creative Suite sales were roughly 50/50 Mac/Win." [1]

So, the fact that Windows has more market share is irrelevant regarding whether Adobe should worry.

More relevant things would be:

1) designer share of macOS/Windows might have skewed since 2009 (but even at worst case I'd expect a 30-40% to still be on Macs).

2) Sketch alone just tackles Illustrator duties, not several other things the Suite does. So it wouldn't be enough for Adobe to lose Suite buyers over -- just people only using Illustrator.

But combined with newcomers like Affinity and co, it might.

Re:How Sketch Took on Adobe by h1d on Friday December 14, 2018 @12:54PM (#18682842)
I wonder why you thought Mac's share is declining. Mac in 2009 wasn't as mature as now with both their OS and third party apps.
Re:How Sketch Took on Adobe by coldtea on Friday December 14, 2018 @03:17PM (#18684288)
I don't think Mac's share is declining -- it has grown in the overall laptop market.

What I think is their share of creative might have dropped slightly, as some have moved to Windows (e.g. Premiere using editors, and others finding Apple's Pro machines slow release pace and high prices for customizations to disk/memory bad).

Re:How Sketch Took on Adobe by pjmlp on Friday December 14, 2018 @08:36AM (#18680668)
Not from designers that live in countries where Apple hardware is out of reach for the standard living costs.
Re:How Sketch Took on Adobe by coldtea on Friday December 14, 2018 @08:55AM (#18680776)
Those designers would still be irrelevant for whether Adobe has to worry.

Obviously, whether Adobe has to worry from a competitor that's OS X only depends on the percentage of OS X vs Windows users buying Adobe's program.

If N% of Adobe's customers use OS X, then Adobe can still potentially lose up to N% of its users (the OS X using ones) to a competitor -- and whether there are tons of designers "living in countries where Apple hardware is out of reach" wont change this.

(Besides in many such countries most designers will just pirate Adobe stuff too, so they're neither Adobe nor Apple's customers to begin with).