10-21-2017, 10:10 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-21-2017, 10:13 AM by Brightcolours.)
Adobe has always been quite an obnoxious company. From the early years, with PS and PostScript and Pagemaker, they were not scared of creating controversies. The only company that sucked more was Quark Inc.
They used to charge ridiculous amounts of money for PS, before the CS bundle series. They abused their monopoly position in many ways. They also used to buy up upcoming competitors, to kill of the products after the buy out. Examples: Golive CyberStudio was the 1st really good webpage design software from the small German company Golive, for the Mac. Abode bought them. They also bought MacroMedia, which had the (better) Illustrator competitor Freehand, Dreamweaver and flash. They killed off Freehand right away. And then dropped Adobe Golive.
When Adobe bought Macromedia, a team developing video software went to Apple to create Final Cut Pro. Adobe premiere sucked donkey balls back then, and Apple quickly became a market leader. Adobe then threatened to drop PS for the Mac, because it did not like the competition from Apple, who just came out with Aperture (Aperture predates Adobe Lightroom).
Because of Adobe's history, I have always steered away from their software, except Photoshop, because of its powerful layers features and the plugins available (among other things). I have never liked LR (nothing great about its output), and because it is from Adobe I have never tried to get used to it either, not wanting to get tied in to it and its forced update cycle.
And now we have their forced subscriptions. Their greed knows no bounds.
They used to charge ridiculous amounts of money for PS, before the CS bundle series. They abused their monopoly position in many ways. They also used to buy up upcoming competitors, to kill of the products after the buy out. Examples: Golive CyberStudio was the 1st really good webpage design software from the small German company Golive, for the Mac. Abode bought them. They also bought MacroMedia, which had the (better) Illustrator competitor Freehand, Dreamweaver and flash. They killed off Freehand right away. And then dropped Adobe Golive.
When Adobe bought Macromedia, a team developing video software went to Apple to create Final Cut Pro. Adobe premiere sucked donkey balls back then, and Apple quickly became a market leader. Adobe then threatened to drop PS for the Mac, because it did not like the competition from Apple, who just came out with Aperture (Aperture predates Adobe Lightroom).
Because of Adobe's history, I have always steered away from their software, except Photoshop, because of its powerful layers features and the plugins available (among other things). I have never liked LR (nothing great about its output), and because it is from Adobe I have never tried to get used to it either, not wanting to get tied in to it and its forced update cycle.
And now we have their forced subscriptions. Their greed knows no bounds.