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I attended a full-day demo of Adobe Creative Suite 3 today. Details to follow.

Just a couple of quick observations for now:

The program opened with a video montage of ordinary users talking about the promise of the Adobe-Macromedia merger.

Said one euphoric spokesperson,"Take the best of this one, the best of that one... when that happens, it only gets better for the consumer."

That's a novel theory. If true, this would completely upend economic theory, not to mention antitrust law. Someone should tell DaimlerChrysler.

Yes, CS3 will do much more than what was possible before using Adobe CS2 plus Macromedia Studio 8. It'll have tighter integration and greater functionality, and put common features under one roof. But what happened to the benefits of competition? Wouldn't it be better for web designers in the long run if there was true diversity in the world of content production tools?

One of the key benefits of the integrated suite is that the programs do a great job talking to one another. But wouldn't it be nice if the file formats were standardized as XML so that files from Photoshop, Illustrator or Flash could be consumed by any application that needed to do so?

Labels: Adobe, economics, web design, Web Standards