Bye, bye Adobe

https://medium.com/@ramijames/bye-bye-adobe-3c3ba22c4ac0?ref=heydesigner-weekly27

by Brajeshwar • 11 years ago

39 11 11 years ago

nailer• 11 years ago

I've found Adobe products to have interactive performance poor enough to be considered 'unusable' for even small workflows on a GBP1500 Haswell MBA - the only other piece of software that's has the same level of latency is Eclipse.

Thanks god for Sketch.

ak39• 11 years ago

Wow, I see Rami had his cancellation fee waived! I had to fork out another $75 for cancellation and wasn't even allowed to use the product for the remainder of the period.

Adobe? Never again.

Using Inkscape now for Illustrator replacement. Mixed results.

corobo• 11 years ago

Luckily I decided to do this exactly a year after I started the account, because apparently the terms that I signed up for stipulate that if I cancel before that, I’ll be charged a service fee

There's no cancel fee after 1yr+ membership. To be fair you have the option when you sign up to either go for a year's contract or a month-by-month. The latter as you might expect costs a bit more

orionblastar• 11 years ago

This is typical of the tech industry, making it hard to cancel an account so you are forced to stay a customer and return. I think AOL used to do that, and had to pay to cancel your account.

Bloatware is nothing new either.

Instead of Photoshop some people would rather use Gimp: http://www.gimp.org/

extropic-engine• 11 years ago

I know Gimp is always referenced as the "alternative" to Photoshop but I think it still suffers from a lot of usability issues. I've found Krita to be a much better replacement: https://krita.org/

mmosta• 11 years ago

I rolled with CS5 for so long until the burden of asking clients to provide backwards compatible source files became too large.

It's both remarkable and a shame to see how far the suite has come since the days of Photoshop 1.07 on my old Apple.

Regardless, I'll stand by Rami for the decade it'll take for competing software to mature.

socalnate1• 11 years ago

I can see why this is frustrating, but did you really need to be such a dick to the support agent?

Retra• 11 years ago

"This is nothing more than a big player strong-arming its user base and milking it for money. Adobe, not cool."

I hope that nobody is actually surprised by this. I mean, the second Adobe announced that it was moving to a cloud service, this is the thought I had, and I'm no prophet.

Because this is basically the same kind of crap you have to deal with for just about every subscription, in every medium.

robgibbons• 11 years ago

Everyone where I work is using Sketch now. No, seriously -- Adobe should be very worried. People who have used ACS for years are jumping ship by the dozens.

hactually• 11 years ago

I'm confused - I googled Sketch and saw that is a, not very comparable in my opinion, tool by Adobe.

Do you have their site?

thm76• 11 years ago

I guess they're talking about http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/

Bye, bye Adobe

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