> This year, Adobe will launch multitasking tools on mobile that might enable you to work faster than you would on a desktop No offence to Adobe because they a

> This year, Adobe will launch multitasking tools on mobile that might enable you to work faster than you would on a desktop No offence to Adobe because they are obviously more than capable of producing great tools, but I seriously doubt they'll be able to achieve near native desktop performance with a mobile version of Photoshop, Illustrator or any other tool for a very very long time. The headline is a bit sensationalist (well, a lot). Adobe didn't say they were killing or want to kill their desktop variants, but it makes sense they are going down the web path in their thinking. I think what this comes down to is the fact that even with Creative Cloud, Adobe struggle in the face of piracy. Look on The Pirate Bay or Kickass Torrents, Adobe software is some of the most pirated software around even the CC variants. Moving to a web application would mean it would be impossible for people to pirate your software because they would need an account to use it, etc. Not being downloadable means bypassing any anti-piracy implementation would be next to impossible. A move to web only might happen one day, but I don't agree that the performance is quite there for an application on the scale of Photoshop to achieve desktop-like performance. Not to mention the questions about how and if this would work offline, etc. Adobe Comp is a great tool for simple needs, but for the power user and professional not-so-much. These days I find myself using Bohemian Coding's Sketch than I do Photoshop. I think killing off Fireworks without a viable replacement was a big mistake on Adobe's part. I still use Fireworks CS6 on my PC and Sketch when I am on my Mac.