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[jjjiii]

Adobe BlankCheck OMG*

"It's the cost of doing business."

Buy the same thing from us year after year!
Learn how to do the same thing over and over again!

Features:

• New splash screen and version number.


• So new, in fact, we had to completely change our version numbering schema!


• No, really, it's new! It's not just the difference between 11 and 12, it's the difference between 11 and OMG!!


• Interface has been re-organized to enable more efficient workflow and confuse long-time users.


• Backward compatibility (well sort of).


• Cross-platform compatibility (well sort of).


• New color management paradigm ensures all old files will have issues with color shifting.


• $700 per head from your organization goes to Adobe's coffers!


• Special $149 upgrade price makes it seem like you're saving money!


• Continued support for another year, assuming we don't change our minds or go out of business or discover any more bugs after we release the x.0.1 patch.


• No actual enhancement of end-user productivity!


• One more thing to break!


• 2 new features you never knew you needed, and probably didn't!


• 45,000 new bugs!


• Keeps your helpdesk staff employed while simultaneously sapping their will to live!

*Now integrated with Adobe TreadWater!

Comments

[bamatone.livejournal.com]

Man, you got that right... Foxit PDF Reader all the way.

[jecook]

And then Adobe wonders why everyone pirates their products...

M$ is in the same boat, for the most part. Expensive products that have a bunch of bugs in them, yet it seems that everyone+dog has a copy of them...

[jjjiii]

Oh, definitely, but everyone makes fun of Microsoft already...

[klytus.livejournal.com]

M$ is in the same boat, for the most part. Expensive products that have a bunch of bugs in them, yet it seems that everyone+dog has a copy of them...

That is because even the folks that have moral qualms about piracy have no issues with "making unauthorized copies" of Micro$cum software.

[dysan27.livejournal.com]

Is it really that bad an upgrade?

(I assume you're talking about the photoshop suit)

[jjjiii]

Yes, and it's pretty much for anything Adobe sells.

[jjjiii]

I'm really talking about the entire commercial software industry, making an example of Adobe.

[brotherflounder]

THIS is why I still use Photoshop 7.

[kayfox.livejournal.com]

I still use Photoshop 6. Thought 7 had too much bloat. Or maybe it was that same reaction I hat to Windows ME Beta, dont really remeber.

[inochisuru-shi.livejournal.com]

except for the fact ME just seemed to blow major ass
or am i laboring under soem misguided delusion?

[kayfox.livejournal.com]

Windows ME Beta sorta insulted me by using really dumbed down language and refusing to install the video driver I was trying to install. I have refused to touch it ever since.