the Rise and Fall of Adobe

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[spencerallen]

Adobe can really be compared to an abusive relationship. "You let me cross these boundaries because you have nowhere else to go and everyone else trusts me."

[bellhop]

its great seeing artist's with a large following speaking out against Adobe and their awful business practices. They don't realize we have a choice.

[ADCArtAttack]

Really is a shame how hard they fell... the constant drama and controveries. The pricings and limitations on our subscriptions.
Exhausting the bank every month, for a service that, is being outmatched by free alternatives.

[MakersMuse]

Affinity designer and publisher 2 are actually better than the adobe equivalents imo. Can't wait to ditch them for good, just need to put some time into resolve! So glad to see people calling them out for what they've become.

[seamanarts]

I was using Photoshop for over 20 years. After being crapped on for the last 4 years, with regards to a very poor service. I made the decision to quit. It was watching this channel that pointed me towards using clip studio. I haven't looked back since, I've saved a ton of money and have had zero issues. Thanks Jazza. Best move I've done.

[taridean]

If Jazza has waded into the Adobe fiasco, then you know things are bad! When my Adobe subscription came up for renewal early last year, dropped it like hot potato and never looked back. One of the best business money saving decisions I've made in years.

[turtlecatpurrz]

As a blind person who worked with Accessibility professionals at Adobe, I think that the perfect line in this whole piece was when you mentioned their self-importance. I have seldom met more smug people who are so sure of their rightness, despite customer complaints and frustration.

[HeyHaydn]

You can apply a lot of this to Microsoft (and countless other) digital giants. Such a depressing world where technology innovation is actively stifled by corporate interests and greed.

[spydergs]

I bought Davinci Resolve Studio back when it was 15.
We're on 19 and I haven't had to pay for a single update/upgrade.
It's beyond amazing.

[govinddas]

I was using university softwares until this month and its just run out. Was getting stressed over the pricing and limitations of Adobe. This video came at the perfect time.

[TemiDansoArt]

LOVE this video essay style from you! I’m a big fan of commentary channels and this has definitely been missing in the art niche.

[olaoluwaoluleye]

I'm just never going to purchase from Adobe ever

[danielmalinen]

Who remembers the time when Adobe's flash player was almost the only flash player and everyone was forced to use it on some websites to make them work?

When Adobe launched the Creative Cloud and its subscription service I was just getting started with Photoshop.
I instantly understood Adobe's motivations behind that move and refused to get sucked in and be taken hostage.
I reverted to pen and paper and kept everything off the Cloud.
This certainly changed what could have been...

[JamesLee]

Speaking of half baked features, I can remember being excited about a feature that would allow you to 'paint' things like buildings, and 'fill' vines etc in Flash. Turns out that's all those features did. One crappy building pattern and one crappy vine pattern, that couldn't be changed or customised.

Apple and Steve Jobs didn't kill Flash. Adobe left it to rot, along with the whole creative ecosystem that was built around it. People were making whole console games in Flash, but Adobe didn't seem to realise the value in what they had. During the golden age of mobile app development, it's staggering how much Adobe had dropped the ball, with regards to the Flash authoring tool. To this day, nothing has replaced what Flash did so well.

[ironhead]

I always hated the payment model. But I had no alternatives for a very long time. But now... its time to rethink it.

[celestethoms]

I stopped using them 5 years ago. Affinity, procreate, DaVinci all day. I did it mostly because the subscription model left me creatively in a slump. I felt obligated to only use Adobe even though their apps got frustrating. I was angry more than I was creating.

[TriScaleCreations]

My Mom was working a high-paying job when I was a kid, and through her job was able to obtain Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (which was brand new when she got it, back in '99 or 2000), and that was the only art program (apart from MS Paint -the XP and Vista versions) that I used until 2020 (Mind you, I didn't have a tablet, I was using a corded mouse - cordED, not cordLESS). I never saw the need to update, and certainly wasn't about to jump into a subscription, so I remained content with my pre-millennial program. Then, in 2021 I got a Huion Tablet and downloaded Krita. You can imagine the world of difference.

[LordOfTheThings]

I needed to sign a document, my pdf was behind a paywall. I did it on my phone for free.
I was using premiere pro at uni and realised not only was Resolve was not only better, but free.

[ETOE]

I'm still using the non subscription Adobe CS6 Version even on my newest PCs. I changed from Premiere to Hitfilm 8 years ago and from Hitfilm to Davinci 2 years ago. Started Clipstudio this year after testing Affinity which was not my cup of tea. I hope that there will be forces in the future fighting against this almighty Adobe subscription model.