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Re:Adobe Breach Impacted at Least 38 Million Users by camus2 on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @02:24AM (#6632341)
Photoshop has become too big , too unstable while adding features that make little sense. I'm still on CS3 ( i do photo editing for web and studios ). There is no reason for me to upgrade.

There is unfortunatly no room for real competition. All the print/photo industry is locked in proprietary file formats (psd,pdf,...) all owned by Adobe. And piracy is actually hurting small shops, not Adobe.

As we move into the cloud there may be room for more focused Saas apps(like a web version of Lightroom or Fireworks), though i'm afraid Javascript/HTML5 will not deliver the required performances(unless JS becomes as fast as C).

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Re:Adobe Breach Impacted at Least 38 Million Users by protomyth on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @11:09AM (#6634667)
The latest versions of Photoshop do have a lot of new tools used by a lot of people. It is much like any other high-end program - 90% of the people use 10% of the product, it just that all use a different 10%.

> All the print/photo industry is locked in proprietary file formats (psd,pdf,...)

PDF is actually an ISO standard (32000-1:2008) and Adobe has granted a royalty free license to use all Adobe patents to implement the standard. They have also said that all future versions will be defined by the ISO committee.

PSD is proprietary but documented and implemented by a number of programs.

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