I just noticed today that the Macromedia website has gone under a little facelift. Seems like Adobe has finally decided to “phase out” the Macromedia brand. Is it a smart move? I think they should for sure keep keep all of the Macromedia products. But we’ll will just have to see what happens.
I know they have merged, but i do think that they should keep the macromedia brand.
why is that? in the press releases from a couple years ago it says that all the programs (flash dreamweaver etc..) will still stay on, it’s just all going to be under a different umbrella and possibly the ultimate creative suite.. whether it is macromedia flash or adobe flash doesn’t really matter…
They’ll probably phase out Fireworks, because of Photoshop.
One of the features I loved in Fireworks were the panels that organised all the palettes into docked bars instead of windows scattered everywhere as in Photoshop.
While as a designer I applaud the fact that they’ll probably be dropping stuff like Freehand in favor of Illustrator and GoLive in favor of Dreamweaver, and likely be improving interoperability and consistency between the two suites, I don’t like the idea that the only serious competition to Adobe now belongs to them. We’re heading for quite a powerful monopoly here. I’m also unhappy about the fact that – according to the merger FAQ – there will be a lot of layoffs.
The new Adobe/Macromedia site looks awful to my eyes, theyve just cut n shut the Macromedia and Adobe styles and it jars badly.
I for one hope they keep Freehand, Im finding the Adobe apps UIs becoming increasingly frustrating and overcomplicated with lots of different tools under other different tools. Freehand was also going this way, but in no way as bad. They also need some sort of differentiation between the Adobe apps aside from the little picture at the top of the tool palette.
How Adobe was allowed to buy Macromedia I dont know. I mean, how is this good for us, the consumers? Where is Adobe’s competitors?
Id liked to have seen Macromedia buy Quark and make a go of that myself, though Quark 7 does look pretty good.
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It wasn’t just decided to phase it out. That’s been the plan for some time. The merger just finally was approved by all government bodies and shareholders. It’ll be interesting to see what happens going forward.