That would have been Macromedia eating its own children, not Adobe.
Speaking of eating its own children, can anyone explain why Adobe still sells Premier AND AfterEffects? Why hasn't one eaten the other? Who needs two different video editing programs?
The only explanations I've heard from Adobe apologists and marketers is that one is a blah blah blah tool, and the other is a blee blee blee tool. But users need to both blah blah blah and blee blee blee blee, and there's no reason to switch between two different programs, or that one program can't both blah blah blah and blee blee blee.
I think the real reason is that Adobe makes more money with selling two different products instead of one.
Premiere is an editing suite. After Effects is not an editing suite, rather a compositor and motion design suite. I can understand if the distinction is lost on people who have never used the latter, but trust me, it is not lost on motion graphic designers.
You might be surprised to learn that even Apple sells separate editor and compositor software: The just-released Final Cut Pro X is a separate product from Apple Motion.
I do agree, though, that Adobe should consider merging apps when appropriate.
Visually, they may look the same with an empty project but they are completely different products. One is a compositor and the other is an nonlinear editor. The only thing they have in common is the timeline. You can do some basic editing in AE and you can do some basic compositing in Premier. But like all pro software the devil is in the details.
I'm sorry, one product IS a blah blah blah tool and the other IS a blee blee blee tool. Some users do in fact need blah blah blah blah and blee blee blee blee at the same time but not everyone needs both, hence two separate products.
Yes, Adobe does make more money on two separate products but that's not necessarily the reason for doing so. I guess Adobe makes more money by not implementing Photoshop features into Dreamweaver as well.
Actually shockwave and flash did the same thing, except at the time shockwave (Director) was actually more full featured with a programming language called Lingo (this was well before actionscript).
Speaking of eating its own children, can anyone explain why Adobe still sells Premier AND AfterEffects? Why hasn't one eaten the other? Who needs two different video editing programs?
The only explanations I've heard from Adobe apologists and marketers is that one is a blah blah blah tool, and the other is a blee blee blee tool. But users need to both blah blah blah and blee blee blee blee, and there's no reason to switch between two different programs, or that one program can't both blah blah blah and blee blee blee.
I think the real reason is that Adobe makes more money with selling two different products instead of one.
Adobe should eat more of their children.