GoKawiilAdobe is Cooked
What do you get when you spend the last decade and a half exploiting the very same people you were supposed to empower?
Adobe is a huge company. No doubt there is a surplus of great engineers and creatives there. It is unfortunately hollowed out by short-termism.
I believe part of the downfall is, inevitably, the fate of growing too big for too long. They are facing fierce competition from newer, smaller players who can harness the power of new technologies without the overhead of maintaining old systems, a large staff, and dreadful bureaucratic processes. This all results in an overall slow pace of innovation and, sometimes, challenging timing to make proper technical decisions.
There must be some of that. For sure. We’re talking about Adobe, though. They sure had the resources, the talent, and the runway to manage that transition. They just chose not to. Priorities were different.
Remember Creative Cloud? Of course you do. We all do. It’s still with us.
Who likes it? No one.
One of the most insulting moves it enabled them to do is to hit people who dared to cancel their subscription with surprising, insane fees for trying to leave. What about that? Could you respect a company that treats their users like that? Most of them have supported and cheered them on for decades. It’s gotten to the point where, if you pirated their software, you would have a better experience.
They’ve been recently fined for this. $150 million dollars. They’ve been using these despicable tactics for years. The point is, if the Department of Justice hadn’t taken action, they would still be getting away with it. The only reason for Adobe to settle is because there was no way out. Their PR statement is a complete mockery to the people.
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