Paper is dead - has PDF followed suit?

Paper is dead - has PDF followed suit?

I've never been a big fan of Adobe's PDF format. Yes, it can be enormously useful at times, but those times are becoming increasingly infrequent. And look at the size of the Adobe Reader these days...it's a reader for heaven's sake. Even on a fast machine it takes many seconds to load...ever watched all the libraries that it loads. Of course, you can get round this by using a pre-loader in your Startup file...but this then hogs a huge amount of memory, just so you can read a file a few seconds quicker. (If you're interested in how much RAM that takes up, press Ctrl-Alt-Del and launch the Task Manager). And don't get me started on the enforced upgrade trail.

Anyway, as this piece suggests, maybe the monolithic Adobe will lumber along on its own path, missing some important trends in publishing.