Adobe sets us straight: GoLive and Freehand are not going anywhere (yet)

Remember that post we had yesterday (ok, fine: I wrote it) that Adobe was giving pink slips to GoLive and Freehand? As it turns out, that might not exactly have been true. Macworld reported last night that a true-blue Adobe rep laid it out on the table: "Adobe plans to continue to support GoLive and Freehand and develop these products based on our customer's needs."

However, another quote doesn't cast any good vibes on the future of these products in the long run: "Clearly Dreamweaver and Illustrator are market leading when it comes to web design/development and vector graphics/illustration... Customers should expect Adobe to concentrate our development efforts around these two products with regards to future innovation and Creative Suite integration".

Take from that what you wish, but it sounds like the GoLive-haters from my previous post and the Freehand-lovers will still have some hatin' and lovin' to do, at least for a little while longer.

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Source: http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/31/adobe/index.php?lsrc…

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Remember that post we had yesterday (ok, fine: I wrote it) that Adobe was giving pink slips to GoLive and Freehand? As it turns out, that...

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sambeau

And what of Fireworks?

June 01 2006 at 5:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jbelkin

Hey Adobe - so how about dropping the cost of FREEHAND & GOLIVE to $69 (what does ELEMENTS cost?). We still need a decent mid-tier WYS HTML app on the Mac - yea, tried some of the others like FREEWAY but they are still not ready to go yet ...

June 01 2006 at 1:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Splashman

I honestly don't understand how every effin' blog has gone through the exact same (flawed) reporting process on this non-story. How about actually reading the statement, instead of just copy/pasting?

"Support" means that if you call up and ask a question, Adobe won't hang up on you. Woohoo.

"Develop these products based on our customers' needs" means absolutely nothing at all. Adobe could (and unless they're idiots, already did) decide, as soon as tomorrow, that what their statement really means is, "Our customers need Illustrator, not Freehand."

I'm a Freehand fanatic, and I cringe every time I launch Illustrator, but I would have to be out of my effin' mind to think that Adobe will continue to develop Freehand. The very best we can hope for is that a few minor features from Freehand will eventually make it into Illustrator, so Adobe can generate some PR copy along the lines of "best of both worlds."

June 01 2006 at 10:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tony

Your "previous post" links to a macworld article and not your previous post.

June 01 2006 at 9:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Neil

Gah: Freehand's a layout tool, not a drawing doodah like Illustrator - they're different enough to both remain viable. Bad Adobe!

June 01 2006 at 9:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply