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However in this case there is no death. Adobe is the de-facto for drawing to photo manipulation.

While there may be open-source alternatives however Adobe is kept alive via media & enterprise where there is no alternative.

edit: downvoted?



They are clearly losing market segment after market segment. Flash and Dreamweaver have lost the Internet market, Flash/Animate is no longer the clearly dominant software for 2d animation for media and television, XD is losing the web UX community, Photoshop is losing the hobby and semi-professional drawing community.

Adobe has enough momentum and moat that their demise will stretch over decades, and they could halt their fall at any point. Retaking market segments that are lost is hard, but regaining the trust of those about to leave is a lot easier. But if they keep course their eventual fall into irrelevance is inevitable.


> de-facto for drawing

I don't think that this is still true - most artists switched to CSP, Procreate, various other programs. There isn't really an industry standard any more.


> There isn't really an industry standard any more.

It is utilized heavily within Animation. Universal, Disney, are all heavy users of Adobe, unless that's changed in the past two years.

source: I had a gig for an medium sized animation studio, a large amount of artists all wanted and used adobe.




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