That outspoken dichotomy is a result of a fact about me: if I love your products, I expect the creators to love and respect them in kind. I want success for brands like Adobe and always hearing praise isn't how a company continues to evolve and succeed. I use an Adobe app at least once per day, and my taskbar is one third Adobe apps, ranging from InDesign and Premiere to Photoshop and Lightroom. In short, I pay attention to and speak out about Adobe because I use their stuff every day. Recently, I was thinking back on the launch of Creative Cloud and how not long after, a steady stream of applications seemed to flow out of their California headquarters (I mean that as a plural headquarters, like San Jose and San Francisco, together). At first, I was paying attention to every one, like Sketch and Draw and apps like Kuler which eventually evolved into Color.īut it wasn't long before I was not able to pay attention to every app and give each the attention they deserved. There are eleven pages, each with nine apps, of Adobe Apps. If you go to Adobe’s website today, you might stumble upon this page that lays out all of Adobe’s applications. I know I did recently, and as I clicked page after page, the situation of their app economy became even clearer to me. In the time I stopped paying attention to every app they released, simply because I didn't have the capacity, their apps ballooned in number. There are presently 13 pages with nine different apps shown per page. That’s 117 different applications spanning across multiple platforms and a plethora of creative uses. It’s stunning actually, and as a Creative Cloud subscriber, I see 24 presented to me in my CC desktop application when I’m told it’s time to update something (or when I'm forced to click on it to shoo away a notification). ![]() ![]() How could something like the Creative Suite of just a few mainstay applications morph into an ecosystem of over a hundred distinct applications? Honestly, I use about six of these apps regularly. So then, taking a step back, apps like Character Animator are separate from what could be considered "parent apps" because they exceeded the architecture of the original application. Character Animator is separate, I am now extrapolating based on what Bryan told me, because it can succeed better as a separate application, freed from the bonds of After Effects' necessary parts. In that same vein, I wanted to know why apps with very, very similar goals are separated. It makes sense perhaps to have Character Animator and Lightroom be separate from their parent products, but why are apps like Sketch and Draw separate? Even those app names are synonyms.īryan laughed. "Sketch and Draw should probably be one app.
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