That's a fair point. Photoshop and Illustrator are definitely their flagship products, and I didn't even bother mentioning their web tools (HTML5 is rapidly mak

That's a fair point. Photoshop and Illustrator are definitely their flagship products, and I didn't even bother mentioning their web tools (HTML5 is rapidly making Flash a legacy/zombie product, and I don't think there's any single clearly dominant web design/dev tool/toolchain -- although I'd argue that the majority of mockups still occur in Photoshop, and slicing up PSDs for the web is still done). I mentioned Premiere and After Effects because they're the other 'big' apps that Adobe develops, and they do integrate tightly with their main 2-- but as you mentioned, Premiere and AE definitely have very healthy competition. Which brings up an interesting question...if After Effects and Premiere have strong competition, why don't Photoshop and Illustrator have equally strong competitors? I've already taken a guess, but I'm interested in other perspectives.