What would an Apple-Adobe merger mean to Microsoft?
We interrupt our ongoing series of Microsoft reorg posts to speculate on one heck of a speculative post by pundit Robert Cringely.
Cringely thinks an Apple-Adobe merger makes sense on a variety of fronts. If it ever did come to pass, it would make for interesting competitive times vis-a-vis the pair’s relationship with Microsoft.
Apple, with its growing share of the retail PC market and its monopolization of the digital-music player one, competes with Microsoft on a number of retail fronts (Vista, Zune, IPTV, productivity apps). Adobe, with its designer tools, RIA (Rich Internet Architecture) products, document-management wares, etc., competes with Microsoft on the Windows/Office/Silverlight fronts.
