There is an announcement about a new Acrobat, and a blog by Kevin Lynch
A just-released study from consumer research firm GfK reports that consumers in Western countries and emerging markets are more likely to consider price, screen size and display technology when buying a new set rather than Internet connectivity. But in emerging markets, the interest is much higher in the Web. About 61% of consumers in India and 64% in China said they look for Internet capabilities in new TVs, compared to 26% in the UK and 29% in the U.S., GfK said.Usage of connected TV features is also much higher in emerging markets. GfK found that three-quarters of smart TV owners in China have used the connected TV features on their TV sets in the past month, compared to half or less in the Western markets.
We achieved Document Services revenue in Q3 of $185.5 million, driven by continued Acrobat adoption in the enterprise, as well as strong growth in EchoSign and related Acrobat cloud services. Looking to Q4, we are excited about the next major release of Acrobat which will ship late in the quarter.
What impresses me about Adobe is how well the company has survived the decline of Flash and the relative failure of its efforts in enterprise applications (the digital enterprise segment is now subsumed in the figures into “Digital Marketing”). The segment breakdown for the third quarter looks like this:
$millions
- Digital Media (Creative Cloud) 769.1 (71%)
- Digital Marketing (analytics etc) 257.1 (24%)
- Print and Publishing 54.4 (5%)
Sorry for delay in writing up Cross Media Live. Various things are taking up time. I think this was a major event but I can't get a grasp on the time context. It may be part of a fairly long process as part of another one. The legitimate British printing industry was definitely part of it. some of the ideas have been presented in other places and times but the idea of hard copy as part of communication is something to develop. The reports so far suggest there were more people there from marketing than from print, with a considerable number from publishing.