Will ten years see adobe standing on a street corner, in the pouring rain with a sign?
Probably not, but changes have been big at Adobe in the past year and even before, and not for the better. Adobe support is in the toilet, prices are up, and the competition, though not yet shining bright, is growing.
All we can say for the competition is “Come on in” Adobe is out of touch, and it’s getting worse. We need some good old fashioned product wars to balance out the scales.
Since Adobe purchased Macromedia nearly two years ago things have taken a rapid decline, and it seems that Adobe must be kidding themselves into thinking it won’t catch up with them.
Aside from customer service problems, like long hold times, sending support overseas to people we can barley communicate with, and that have a general lack of interest in our problems Adobe has also introduced heavy DRM (digital rights management) into their products. They just don’t get it do they? You can go online and download an illegal version of any Adobe software you want that will work just fine. Or you can be honest and support Adobe by spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars on their products.
So what does adobe do? Adobe in their latest