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This. Plus network effects. Once you have people sharing files in Photoshop, Indesign and AE formats, everyone who's working with you has to adopt Adobe as well

This. Plus network effects. Once you have people sharing files in Photoshop, Indesign and AE formats, everyone who's working with you has to adopt Adobe as well. GIMP proves that it's possible to build a competing product that has all the features, but doesn't come with the same ease-of-use or shortcuts or support for proprietary file formats. Which means slow adoption, and ensures that it's hard to compete with Adobe in this field.

solarkraft 9y ago
There are many products able to somewhat import psd, but due to its (perhaps intentional) complexity many fail to fully support it. See Xee developer Paracelsus: > Trying to get data out of a PSD file is like trying to find something in the attic of your eccentric old uncle who died in a freak freshwater shark attack on his 58th birthday... I am spending a lot of time imagining amusing fates for the people responsible for this Rube Goldberg of a file format. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/30/xee_photoshop_psd_code_rant/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/30/xee_photoshop_psd_c...