On May 31, 2010, at 09:29 , Scott Loveless wrote:
On 5/30/10, Bob W <p...@web-options.com> wrote:
chuckle.
http://photomusings.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/more-adobe-nightmares/
and they say Dante was inventive in his description of Hell.
I was miffed the other day when Adobe decided that, because I had the
audacity to surf to their site with Firefox, I had to install a Reader
Installer plug-in before I could install Reader. But the 17 disk
swaps kinda takes the cake.
Too bad you kids weren't around when installing PageMaker took 6 800k
floppies, and swapping was so much fun, EVEN on a clean install. Oh
yeah, you had to have many of the OS install disks handy because Apple
wouldn't let Adobe have the needed OS segments on the Adobe install
disk set.
The bottom line on this subject is: Neither Microsoft, nor Apple, nor
Adobe, could advance the technology of their software if they had to
be held back by the other's older software.
Snow Leopard is a complete rewrite, and an attempt to get away from
having to "simulate" the older OS's code and calls. Developers had 1.5
years to get on board the upgrade wagon. I know, from a developers
point of view, it's a pain to be chasing the alphas and betas and the
changes that would be made as time passed, but if you were the folks
with a ready product or upgrade at the new OS release, you owned the
market.
Adobe thinks they already own the market, and continue to produce
bloatware based on a 15 year old model.
Since Aperture 3 came out, I've not had to go to PS for anything yet.
If I wanted text in my images, I would. Not that I haven't had a few
problems adapting to Aperture 3. I have.
But how could any of these companies stay in business if they didn't
FORCE you to spend money to upgrade their software to run nice with
the other's software? Remember that business model that struck us
between the eyes in the early 80s? Before that jumped up, consumers
were accustomed to buying a product and using it until it wore out!
the personal computer industry adapted the grocery store model. Buy
it, consume it, come back for more, if you try to store it for too
long it will get rotten and make you sick!
Joseph McAllister
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