Comments on: Making fun of CS3 news stories

By: David Smith

David Smith — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:02:10 +0000

++++++++ on the HTML5 link.

Also, the new selection features in Photoshop look like something I will use all the time. So there's at least some good besides the universal binary part :)

By: Peter Hosey

Peter Hosey — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:17:23 +0000

Evan: Ah.

By: Evan Schoenberg

Evan Schoenberg — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:55:47 +0000

Adobe was founded in 1982, so that's where he got that date... but they didn't do anything notable in the industry (according to [their own history pdf](http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pdfs/timeline_090501.pdf)) until 1983 or 1985, depending on your metric.

By: Jesper

Jesper — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:35:04 +0000

I regard many of the new features in the new apps as useful features. The style find-and-replace feature in InDesign is particularly a stroke of genius, and it was about time we got "Smart Filters" in Photoshop. I agree with you that some of the apps are already bloated, but I wouldn't say that most apps have become significantly and obviously *more* bloated, especially with Photoshop sliced in two editions for stuff you wouldn't need.

Photoshop is a competent application, but I do wish they'd modularize it more. I'm not using a full third of the app, and I don't want Adobe to remove that, but enabling me to not load - and why not, not *pay* for - those parts would be nice.

By: Simone Manganelli

Simone Manganelli — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:06:47 +0000

Not sure if you've seen this, but take a look at this choice quote from the New York Times (via Daring Fireball Linked List):

CS3's prices may seem steep compared to other shrink-wrapped software. But Adobe customers -- particularly graphic and video artists with deep-pocketed corporate clients -- spend money relatively liberally compared with average software buyers, Chief Executive Bruce Chizen said.

''Our customer is not typically price sensitive,'' Chizen said last week. ''The cost of the tool isn't what's critical -- it's the productivity and what their output can be. They want to pay for value as long as we deliver innovative features that allow them to be more productive and creative.''

I was like, can you BE any more obvious about ripping off your customers? I mean, seriously honestly, WTF. And then Adobe wonders why everyone pirates their software.

Adobe really needs some competition with Photoshop.