Adobe... cry and fail
I have made it clear over the years just how much I despise Adobe, their products and their code. It's pretty abysmal all round. One very good about a specific issue was flagged today over at Daring Fireball. I am sure that anyone who reads this will already have seen it in the feed, but if you haven't clicked through you should - it's spot on.
Adobe need to learn how to provide a smoother user experience all around and that starts at the installer. Pierre Igot wrote a great little article on his blog about this today. The installers are cluttered, the apps are huge, slow and garish. The price is insane. The apps break if you so much as launch them and they are full of code and junk features which haven't been re-written or optimised in any way for years. They are still wimping out of writing native code and using GPU power as a work around. Their CEO consistently makes promises of being the first, or the best but in such cases they fail to even beat Microsoft in the Mac space. For example they were the last major vendor to move our of Rosetta.
As far as I can see Adobe deserve a big, fat FAIL sign tattooed on their building.
Adobe need to learn how to provide a smoother user experience all around and that starts at the installer. Pierre Igot wrote a great little article on his blog about this today. The installers are cluttered, the apps are huge, slow and garish. The price is insane. The apps break if you so much as launch them and they are full of code and junk features which haven't been re-written or optimised in any way for years. They are still wimping out of writing native code and using GPU power as a work around. Their CEO consistently makes promises of being the first, or the best but in such cases they fail to even beat Microsoft in the Mac space. For example they were the last major vendor to move our of Rosetta.
As far as I can see Adobe deserve a big, fat FAIL sign tattooed on their building.