About burying a superior software ...

Question

We are designers, producers, nerds, geeks. We aren’t
interested in share holder value. We always just wanted to work
with the VERY BEST software for vector drawing. We had it for many
years. It was called Freehand. We need not understand why ADOBE
buries Freehand and keeps Illustrator alive instead. Because
there’s nothing reasonable to understand. The web is stuffed
with angry protest from countless disappointed Freehand users.
Adobe doesn’t care at all. Eat it or die. I won’t eat
it that way, folks.
How can an outstanding company be so ignorant? OK, they did
the same with PageMaker to push InDesign. But there was a special
InDesign version which had an implemented tool palette with
PageMaker functions. So one could forget the good old program step
by step.
With Illustrator, it’s a lot meaner. Just to mention
the fabulous, mighty Bezigon tool in Freehand, Illustrator simply
doesn’t have one! All the countless logos and letterings I
digitized in 20 years would have cost me double or triple time
using the cheesy path tools Illustrator offers. Instead of letting
the Bezier routines do the job automatically between the anchor
points, one has to constantly drag around points and curves
manually. Did any of the Adobe developers ever try Freehand’s
Bezigon tool? That tiny, little tool offsets all the few advantages
Illustrator might have in other sections!
Now they purchased Freehand, and they got the source code.
Now everything’s ready to be finally dumped. Maybe you folks
from ADOBE are too stuck-up to admit that Freehand was the far
better software as a whole. But there’s still one thing you
could do: Preserve the coding of the Bezigon tool and implement it
into Illustrator! Yes, you may give it another name! Yes, it could
also come as a plugin! Of course, even a third party developer
could do the job!
Yes, of course, PLEASE, you could also sell Freehand to
another company, letting them work on it again and compete with
your Illustrator, like in the past. Don’t bury a jewel just
for market share! This would be sooo courageous, and we would love
you again for giving us PhotoShop ...

Answer 1

> As long as
> Illustrator isn?t better than Freehand, they fail.
Of course they don't fail.
As long as Illustrator is the market leader, they're fine.
Business isn't
always about 'best product'. It's about 'good enough'
combined with market
share.
Yes, that sucks for us consumers, but that's how business
works.
> My attitude isn?t
> politically motivated. I just don?t want to spend double
or triple time
> drawing
I agree, and empathize. ;o)
-Darrel