Re: Goodbye ICC, here come Microsoft !
Re: Goodbye ICC, here come Microsoft !
- Subject: Re: Goodbye ICC, here come Microsoft !
- From: edmund ronald <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:40:22 +0200
I have posted some more on my blog, I'm copying it here. I believe
that MS *will indeed* provide an integrated CMS framework that will
iterate into something usable in the space of two releases of Windows.
Also, reading the white paper indicates it will be rather powerful in
its abilities, not just a stub like the Tiger stuff. Taking this as a
given, here are my prognostications.
1. Color will go mainstream as soon as a central control panel for
color is integrated in Windows.
2. Hardware (Pucks) for calibrating monitors will become a high-volume
commoditized buisness.
3. Low-end *packaged* profiling software for monitors will disappear.
Vamoose. Gone. Specialty code shops will write the Windows drivers for
pucks.
4. High-end software for calibrating monitors will survive, as a
niche. However the market may grow so srongly as a result of the
commoditized hardware explosion that revenues here actually expand.
5. In the office print-profiling world, especially inkjets and laser
color printers, calibration hardware (spectros) will also be
commoditized, and integrated into the printing devices.
6. Low-end print-profiling software will disappear. However a new
market for "color tweaking" plugins for Windows will emerge.
7. A niche market for ICC software will remain, in specialty office use.
8. ICC will hang on forever in the prepress and printing industry.
Which is where it was designed and where it should have stayed from
day one. How did this monster ever get into the house of Joe Public ?
9 And the the 64 million dollar question: What is Adobe going to do in
order to interoperate with WCD while remaining platform-agnostic ?
Edmund
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