Adobe has a pretty large collection of products spanning a rather large and diverse group of disciplines and therefore users and customers.

So are you talking about all of them or just some? How did you get to that conclusion?

There is plenty of things that they don't do very well but that can be said about more or less anyone else out there can't it?

In general as a user of their Masters Collection I am pretty satisfied with how they allow my workflows to be optimized across the line.

That's what adobe is in the business of helping me with.

This is why it's so easy for companies like Apple and Adobe to fight over competing standards. You have both companies with developers that have years of training and work experience within their individual content creation pipelines. We call them "fanboys", but in reality they are just working people like you or I that have a particularly well developed skill set and don't want to have to re-train on a whole new platform.

I'm reminded of the great quote by Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it."

I think that hit's it pretty much on the head.

I am not a fanboy, I am just semi-relying on their products and the workflow opportunities it gives me.

Having said that if it seems like the discussion regarding apple/adobe has much more to do with the implications of their products rather than the products themselves.