Adobe, we lov… loathe you!

Blogged on November 13, 2008 at 17:37

I break my blogging hiatus to rant! Yes. Rant. And this is a rant that would not fit 140 chars so: Blogging, here am I!

I’ll start off by saying that I don’t like companies that take advantage of their market supremacy to mock or extort their users and faithful clients. Pretty straightforward, right? Now lets take a look at Adobe.

Adobe is one of those companies who take your wallet first, and then take the time to make your nerves feel like they were torn by OJ Simpson, right before he ran away on that white SUV. No, not kidding! Their Installer is nerve-wrecking! Never seen it? Good. But check Pierre Igot’s, quite detailed, rant on the it.

If I was to rant about it myself I would add the already known loveliness of their pricing scheme. Especially the upgrades which, in my opinion, only encourage piracy as one’s attempt to remain sane (and avoid debt). One thing is spending $2500 for the Master Collection (I won’t go into the International Pricing Scheme–outrageous!), another is having to spend $900 to *update it* (not just upgrade, since most bugs are only actually fixed on the next major release)!!!! Pathetic!! It makes me like I wasted $2500 in buying a dated and buggy software and now, six months later, need to pay an extra $900 just to stay up to date… No, really!

But again, the point of this post was to pass on the link to that excellent post of Pierre’s, that I got via Gruber.

Oh, and a big shout-out to everyone at #Codebits! Hope you’re all having a great time! :) I wish I could see the Live Stream, but apparently the folks at PT think that peering to the US is secondary and pretty pointless. After all, nobody lives or even hosts anything in the US, right? -.-

Oh, and #Anita to you all!! :)