http://www.bemdesign.com/wordpress/2007/06/09/you-cant-get-there-from-here/ Mostly musings on design Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:48:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.bemdesign.com/wordpress/2007/06/09/you-cant-get-there-from-here/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Ben Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:44:58 +0000 http://www.bemdesign.com/wordpress/2007/06/09/you-cant-get-there-from-here/#comment-20 Yes...Acrobat has slowly devolved into crapware since version 4. What is amazingly stupid is that I was just recently installing updates for CS3 and there was an update for the updater! I mean what the crap? Isn't the updater application a glorified web client that downloads updates and runs installer scripts? What could you possibly update in it if you wrote the code decently the first time? It just boggles my mind. But in general I've been treated pretty well by Adobe. So I'm still cutting them a little bit of slack but I don't know how long that will last. Yes…Acrobat has slowly devolved into crapware since version 4. What is amazingly stupid is that I was just recently installing updates for CS3 and there was an update for the updater! I mean what the crap? Isn’t the updater application a glorified web client that downloads updates and runs installer scripts? What could you possibly update in it if you wrote the code decently the first time? It just boggles my mind. But in general I’ve been treated pretty well by Adobe. So I’m still cutting them a little bit of slack but I don’t know how long that will last.

]]> http://www.bemdesign.com/wordpress/2007/06/09/you-cant-get-there-from-here/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Ryan Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:02:23 +0000 http://www.bemdesign.com/wordpress/2007/06/09/you-cant-get-there-from-here/#comment-19 Funny -- I have always been treated poorly by Adobe, with the exception of the time they tried to convince me that Adobe was a good place to work (that time they fed me pizza and won me a backpack that I take on day hikes). I knew that we were all doomed when acrobat reader advanced past version 4. By that point, the writing was on the wall. The rest is just the culmination of the loss of customer centricity that piece-of-crap acrobat foretold. Funny — I have always been treated poorly by Adobe, with the exception of the time they tried to convince me that Adobe was a good place to work (that time they fed me pizza and won me a backpack that I take on day hikes). I knew that we were all doomed when acrobat reader advanced past version 4. By that point, the writing was on the wall. The rest is just the culmination of the loss of customer centricity that piece-of-crap acrobat foretold.

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