{"id":1005,"date":"2010-10-06T23:12:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T23:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocobeam.me\/playground\/2010\/10\/adobe-needs-a-competition-spanking\/"},"modified":"2010-10-06T23:12:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T23:12:54","slug":"adobe-needs-a-competition-spanking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2010\/10\/adobe-needs-a-competition-spanking\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe needs a competition spanking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Somehow this company is under the radar when it comes to complain about software but jeez, they should be on top.<\/p>\n

I remember the times when I didn\u2019t get what was the difference between Shockwave and Flash. I didn\u2019t give a damn because it was all so great to see and try this brand new technology. All my graphic designer friends were just too happy and it was like we\u2019re going to do animated movies for the intertubes and become billionaires.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never had problems with Adobe until I use their products of course. Photoshop is such a standard that there\u2019s no question about it (although they\u2019re slow at updating some obvious stuff). For their graphic tools,  their first business, nothing to say more than competitors.<\/p>\n

But for the rest\u2026 Their fucking formats. The PDF. So awesome in the concept. So awful to use, even professionally the software is full of bugs and UI inconsistencies.  And Adobe Reader is more annoying that Norton. Maybe not, but really close.<\/p>\n

\"Adobe<\/a>
Nooooooooooo<\/em><\/p>\n

Flash. As long as it was used for games (and especially downloadable) it was great but since it became the standard for media players on the web, it\u2019s not ok. The difference between having Flash installed or not when you\u2019re browsing is astonishing, it\u2019s more fluid, it doesn\u2019t hang, the computer stays cool etc. But of course at some point, you have to fucking install the plugin\u2026  I made it for a month without it and I now use a Flash blocker. HTML 5 should fix the problem but it\u2019s still a long road from being able to deal without Flash, the slow and cpu intensive media player. Damn I hate it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m creating e-learning content with their tool Captivate<\/a> and besides the annoyance of having updates all the time for the Helper (???) Adobe AIR or for Flash security, the software is a pile of shit. They rewrote a new version that has been late and went out in June this year. It\u2019s worse. Like, opening a template from Adobe and having the app crashing immediately. Every time. The menu Insert offers you to insert New Slide and Blank Slide which is the fucking same thing. I can\u2019t target old computers with Flash 7. The AS2\/AS3 mess. The Help is awful with a shitty in-app browser, I can\u2019t open the help pdf with Foxit Reader (gotta love Acrobat The Retard) and so on.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a tool meant for productivity and all I get is terrible frustration by loosing time trying to do simple things that barely work.<\/p>\n

They sell Captivate 5 at a whooping 800$. For a world-class company that size, with that price and a poor quality like that, it feels like they\u2019re spitting in my face. It\u2019s the first time I\u2019m so pissed off after purchasing a download. I think I\u2019ll never buy any Adobe product ever again.<\/p>\n

Adobe just doesn\u2019t give a shit or they\u2019re in panic mode, reaching for every creation tools market possible and extend their shitty formats use I don\u2019t know but it\u2019s now really ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Yes, there\u2019s no big competition against them and that\u2019s the main problem.<\/p>\n

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