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stupid decisions are always ruining good products. flash became so code and component heavy that i became a dinosaur overnight and now this.

screw adobe and their idiot designers who dont give a crap about their users.

adobe is the new quark.

the truth, on June 6th, 2008 at 9:25 am

[...] we have other yucky stuff in Photoshop CS4, such as buttons in the title bar (yuck) and non-standard window control buttons [...]

Does Adobe hate the Mac? -- Reality Distortion: Macs, Mac OS X, and Apple stuff, on June 25th, 2008 at 2:33 am

Attention savvy developers! Adobe Alternatives, alternatives, alternatives! There now exists great business opportunity for developers that are skilled enough with Mac technologies to create and sell great design and development tools to replace Adobe’s petrified product line. There are MANY, MANY, MANY Mac-based artists and developers that are crying out for someone to leverage the killer core technologies, etc, that are unique to Mac OS X to create top-shelf, professional tools for those of us desperate to evolve beyond the lowest common denominator, visionless, paleolithic committee-ware Adobe somehow is the only one producing.

Our studio has been showing Adobe solutions out the door for two years now, on both the design and development sides. The only thing hindering us from getting the rest of the Adobe slag out of our pipelines forever is the lack of professional alternatives-and we sincerely believe that Apple’s API’s have evolved to a point where other outfits (including small developers) have the opportunity to outshine and in turn outbid Adobe’s business. We even steer our clients away from Adobe solutions as we feel to do otherwise is to lowball the customer as well as reflect poorly on us–it’s the same reason Apple refuses to allow Adobe’s shoddy Mac-version Flash Player/FPLite onto the iPhone (and here’s hoping they never do!).

Adobe has been short changing Mac users for years now, from late Mac versions to half-assed Mac versions to no Mac versions at all. Is it a surprise to anyone that not long after Adobe began pandering to nothing other than their bottom line (i.e., Windows-base) that soon after their products and services took a very noticeable downturn that continues to this day. Funny how what you put your mind on most tends to manifest your reality-hence Adobe’s ever-bloating, feature-creeping marketware. I would urge more Mac users that are sick and tired of Adobe BS to use their money to demand more from their production tools. At the current rate, Adobe will never see another dime from us, ever.

Ellen Meers, on July 2nd, 2008 at 10:36 pm