Wen/Feng Qiang
: Adobe product line
Today, I see a message "Adobe shut down China Research and Development center, lay off 400 people", although not surprised, but as once used Dreamweaver made a very silly website, the FrontPage pain batch of it old people, still a bit of emotion.
We are in a Chinese-style IT environment, there are Google so come and go, but there and our lives, learning closely related to the company, there are legends like facebook,twitter such as the existence of the company, of course, more is Apple, Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Oracle These companies are likely to have several times a day. In other words, if there is no such environment, we may not have QQ, Weibo, these native applications.
As for Adobe, it's certainly not strange to do web pages and design, in fact, the general Office Lady, office boy, often used PDFs, as well as the page of Flash and video, but also the company has a great relationship. However, I found that most people, and not very well read the pronunciation of Adobe, into China so long, did not come up with a catchy Chinese name, can not but say is a failure, reference: Microsoft, Google, Oracle ... In fact, Adobe jokes that pronunciation is close to "a tease", but the ending in China doesn't seem to be funny.
Research and development to leave China to move to India, only to retain the sales team, in fact, market behavior. In North America and Europe, Adobe has also made significant layoffs, in the case of poor profits, the development of high-wage research to the low-income India, is actually the choice of most companies, the development of a large number of SAP modules, also moved from Germany to India, China these regions.
Adobe's product line, basically all Star products, Photoshop also produced a verb called "PS", as well as creative suite,premiere,audition, Illustrator,acrobat/reader/flash, etc. , such a company should be very rich. But like Nokia, Adobe also made a conservative mistake, in the mobile Internet technology definition, cling to flash, and jobs has been biased by HTML5 not see Flash, Safari for a long time does not directly support Flash. Of course, the choice of the market proves the amid of the Lord, open source, more flexible technology wins, which also creates the full passivity of the Adobe global market.
Adobe China closed its research and development center and cut staff, mostly interpreted as piracy, and anti-monopoly, and so on, is not completely, China's IT industry labor costs have been less advantageous. However, if all medium and small advertising companies, website design to buy genuine software, Adobe's Day is definitely very good. Why not early layout of the cloud design, cloud development, put the application into the cloud to provide cloud services, this may be a good idea to solve piracy, I am not an expert, to help adobe think of ideas.
Of course, Adobe is still a great company with a strong product line layout, a large number of patents, and its Adobe Air product strategy is correcting the mistake of ignoring HTML5, which may be a comeback in time, after all, Adobe remains the industry leader in the design tools segment.
Come on, Adobe, will you follow the footsteps of Nokia Moto?
