Why I’m Done With Adobe

I will never pay Adobe (directly) for software licensing, or anything, again.  If Adobe starts parking cars, I will park somewhere else rather than pay one of their lot attendants.  They suck.  Apple is getting there, but Adobe is long-term suck.  They create some great (bloated, but great) content creation tools, no doubt about it.  But every thing else they do is bloated and fat and works toward integrating into your operating system to prepare you to upgrade to a whole suite of their products and WHAT THE FUCK!!  What about the normal consumer, you know the majority of us out there?  Adobe has no idea how to build something for us.  No idea.  PDF reader was easy as hell, and my guess is that they have a bag of shit on how to monetize it.   Apple is evil, but at least they give a shit about user experience for installs, but Adobe is just greedy and desperate.  A guy called me (at home mind you) one morning, during breakfast to ask me why I didn’t sign up for Adobe Connect.  “Because it sucks,” I told him.  I had login problems.  The system lost a call I’d scheduled.  It changed the timezone on another conference call.  What a piece of shit.  If you’re getting into a business, GET INTO A BUSINESS!!!  Don’t half-ass it because you’re desperately trying to be all things to all people because you know you’re toward the end of the product life-cycle with most of your stuff.  I should probably give Apple a call to make sure they don’t go down the same road with some of their shit.