btbg wrote:
My argument was and is that as dollar conscious as businesses are the fact that they universally use photoshop shows it's superiority.
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Again -- you may want to re look at my examples. The fact, that a business is dominant in a market -- i.e. a market share leader does not mean it has product superiority.
Your logic is taking a very shaky jump.
Again there are many reasons for market share leadership: Leadership, operational offices, superior marketing, distribution channels, superior finances, etc...
I gave three examples of market share leaders where the product is arguably not superior to companies that had smaller market share. McDonald (burgers), HP (personal computers and laptops), and Anheuser-Busch InBev (beer). I can easily come up with many more.
So if your assertion is correct -- i.e. that if a company is dominant in a market (like PP software in Newspaper companies) then does that means McDonald's has the best fast food?, HP makes the best laptops?, and Anheuser-Busch InBev makes the best beer?. I'm sure the person with the Dell or the Apple Macbook would disagree with you, or the person that prefers Lagunitas over the Anheuser-Busch InBev family of beers would disagree with you. Although maybe the guy that likes HP laptops might agree with you. :-)
Again -- "best" and "superior" are subjective terms.
Yes -- based on what you have said I would agree that Adobe PS/LR is "best" for you.
However for me and probably about 50% of the UHHers -- it is definitely not. For some it is PS/LR, for some PSE, for some Luminar, others Capture 1, others Affinity, and others Paint Shop Pro, others Google Photos, others Picassa, others FastStone, etc...
And I'll make a very interesting comment -- it's actually a good thing for people that like/use PS/LR, that there is a lot of competition and a lot of great choices and options. If there wasn't Adobe would be a lot more expensive than $120 a year subscription. Competition keeps Adobe from raising it's prices.