Well there you go. Today, my license to Adobe Fireworks has stopped working. Mind you, this is a product I have purchased quite legally. I have never issued it to anyone. I have even diligently installed it to only one computer. Yet today Adobe has decided that my license has expired/is invalid/has been deactivated/whatever.
This is painful and it reinforces my belief in the sad state of Adobe software. Their products are overpriced and underpowered. I vowe not to use their crap again until they have significantly stepped up their game.
I am installing Pixelmator as I type this. Fuck you Adobe!
I’m in the professional imaging industry and I could not agree with you more. God I hate ALL of Adobe’s shitty products. I’d give my first born child to see Apple make a Photoshop killer.
An Apple-made PS killer would rock so hard it gives me chills just thinking about it. Adobe would surely stop developing anything for Mac though. Not that that’s a bad thing…
Seems that you guys aren’t alone. The company I work for has been diligently easing Adobe products out of our entire pipeline for just over three years now. Adobe’s Mac products have become so horrendous that combined, the CIO, CTO, programmers and designers have adamantly agreed to show Adobe the door. If I’m not mistaken, Photoshop is the only program they said they’ll end up being stuck with until a worthy competitor brings image processing technology for artists and designers into the 21st century. I know a couple of employees that use a combination of Aperture, Core Animation Funhouse, Motion and Pixelmator whenever they can, only launching PS when they absolutely have to. Acrobat was the first to hit the bricks, after that it was InDesign, Fireworks and DreamWeaver. Illustrator never really made it’s way into the workflow since people seemed to be fervent Freehand users so as soon as they knew it was dead they adopted some fast and fluid Mac-only vector programs, unfortunately I’m not sure what the names of the apps are because I don’t use them, I think they use a couple different ones. Most recently anything that had to do with Flash was thoroughly scoured from corner of the company. Most of the IT geeks had been pushing for that for a while for a lot of reasons. They said that the Flash Player for the Mac has always been a terrible version, apparently that is partly why Steve Jobs doesn’t want it on the iPhone, something the geeks say is a very good move on Apple’s part. I guess some new web technologies are almost ready that will allow for more things than Flash can do and with less headaches and no need for Flash video and so forth. Also the Adobe programming tools are always late comers to the Mac and that Adobe is terrible with 64 bits for Macs. The moral of my story is that you guys would fit in real well where I work. They have all sorts of other things about Adobe that they dislike but I can’t remember it all. Most of their stuff is already gone from our workplace anyways. Hopefully someone will make a modern version of Photoshop!