Adobe launches Project ROME preview, all-in-one content creation/publishing

Adobe's largest, most pronounced MISTAKE was gobbling Macromedia and their sh*tty browser plugin. All their marketing blather doesn't matter, at the end of the day, Adobe put their entire fate in the frail hands of a browser pluging that developers SANDBOX and end users yell at.

Apple took ONE LOOK at this situation and basically said NO.

If there was any debt between the two companies, it was basically erased the minute Adobe arrogantly called Apple out, and Apple said its 'No' in that 'About Flash' letter.

Macromedia was out of ideas and money when they were consumed by Adobe. Now Adobe, with the same idiots at the helm, is out of ideas except for this cloudcrap.

Barring any acquisition by Microsoft I see their circling of the drain as not so slow and not for very long.

Moral of the story: Don't be arrogant, and certainly DO NOT piss off your major platform vendor. And certainly DO NOT call your sh*tty browser plugin a 'platform'... even MSFT knows that Silverlight is not a 'platform.'

So much Adobe hate in the Apple world.....what would the mac be without creative suite? Nowhere given that it's really only graphic designers who for some reason insist on using macs at work.

i think Apple's old OpenDoc concept a great idea that Adobe could run with but runs contrary to their agenda of bloatware everywhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxc6YgwWvwU

"Rome", eh?

Boys and girls, can you say OpenDoc?

What's old is new again...

They acquired a great software from (R.I.P.) Macromedia called Fireworks, they managed to make it worse over time, and I've never seen any other company this big, buying something and crap*ing all over it like that.

Now, instead of trying to solve their issues... bloated and buggy software, rare and minor updates for the entire life of the release until they try to sell you a new version with hardly any improvements but minor bug fixes.

Then they waste time with these unusable DOA piece of... I'd say software... but it's not worth the name.

They built their entire company on top of flash in the last years, they forgot about fireworks, illustrator and indesign... they still care (not too much) about photoshop... and now what... flash is destined to die... luckily they will die with it.

Die adobe, die!

It's interesting to see a modern attempt at the 'multimedia authoring' app that's EASY to use. I remember all kinds of odd applications (and usually their projects were saved in their own formats) through the years.

I built portfolios with them a few times and did some basic 'click through' type projects with them. Director and Authorware got bigger and richer and I think everything else went away. And now there's Flash, I guess. I wouldn't mind seeing an easy to use application that allows you to build simple little multimedia projects. Especially for students.

And I wonder what kind of info you agree to let Adobe collect from your computer?

Why bother calling it "Project Rome" if the tagline isn't "Built in a day"?

Is this Adobe's iWeb?
no HTML5 export? (only pdf, sfw, jpg)