Found this on Daring Fireball. Interesting reading. Crumpet is a big Photoshop geek, but I don’t understand it at all. Part of this may be due to my complete lack of colour coordination (I test fine for colour blindness, but I sure as hell don’t dress like it).
In any case it’s sad when a once-innovative company becomes complacent due to lack of competition, if only because it removes the incentive for improvement. As Gruber mentions, Apple has decimated Adobe in the video-editing market because Adobe let Premiere die on the Mac. Now Apple has Final Cut Pro which is generally regarded as an excellent application, but what will push Apple to improve it, beyond user criticism? Certainly not Adobe.
I wonder if something similar will befall Photoshop on the Mac, once small developers start exploiting Core Image and making applications that do 95% of what the average user requires, but cost 5% of Photoshop’s price and are far more user-friendly?
