Software evolution

Being a bit of an Apple geek, I watched this 1997 video of Steve Jobs talking about the integration of NeXT and Apple, and his future plans for Apple software. One thing that struck me was his praise for Adobe as a small software developer who had made the revolutionary Pagemaker (desktop publishing) software on the original Macintosh. Of course now Adobe is gigantic and is generally regarded as producing bloated, poorly designed software, while the true innovators are small companies writing iOS and Mac apps. I couldn’t help but wonder what this portends for Apple itself.