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The Talk Show With John Gruber

383: ‘A Photocopy of a Fax’, With Jason Snell

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Summary

Jason Snell, come on down. You’re the next contestent on The Talk Show. Special topics: John Warnock and Adobe, Disney and Apple, the iMac’s 25th anniversary, and more.

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0:00.0

I guess we should just knock out the sad news right at the beginning Jason and do the obituaries.

0:10.5

Let's do it. Let's put them up top. I like it. We got John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe.

0:17.6

He died about a week ago. The Times had a good obituary. I was kind of taken it back.

0:24.6

Adobe did not do the sort of our founder died. Let's devote our home page to a obituary.

0:31.9

Like, I mean, the canonical example would be what Apple did when Steve Jobs died.

0:37.2

Adobe just sort of had like a statement, but they didn't really market on their website.

0:43.2

They're too busy trying to sell you on doing marketing things with your website or whatever they do now.

0:51.2

It still is the Adobe I love, but there's also like the the new Adobe that does stuff that I don't

0:58.4

think I want to know about the the ad tech Adobe. Yeah, when I was at IDG, we used Omnitr for a while,

1:05.2

which is part of Adobe and it's all the yeah, it's like ad tech and analysis and stats and marketing

1:10.0

tools and all of that, which I understand they got a lot of they got a lot of people who are in

1:15.0

the advertising business and then the marketing business and it's one of those ways like all this talk

1:20.9

I'm sure we're going to talk about about like businesses. Apple is in that you would never have

1:26.2

bet they would have been in and are there going to be other weird businesses that they are going to

1:30.5

go in that we will be shocked by today, but like Adobe's like that right where they're like they

1:35.8

still do Photoshop. They still do all of the creative apps. They're still building new apps.

1:42.6

They still have like teams of scientists and mathematicians working on while like AI image

1:48.8

recognition features and all of that stuff, but they also have now this built this whole

1:54.4

side business or or maybe it's the main business. I actually don't know the size of it, but it's

1:58.7

like yeah, marketing tools for big companies. Yeah, I don't know, but but we're not he wrote

2:03.2

illustrator and we're not going to gashki the two founders gashki passed away a couple of years

2:07.2

ago just pivotal knowledgeable computer people who also decided that they were going to just take

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