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This isn't directly a reply to your comment, but the way I've seen Adobe for a while is not that they are lazy, but that they are not focused. They keep coming
by GBKS 17y ago
This isn't directly a reply to your comment, but the way I've seen Adobe for a while is not that they are lazy, but that they are not focused.
They keep coming out with new products for Flash (Catalyst, iPhone apps, Air, Flex 3/4, Stratus...) and new features for Photoshop (like import of 3D models) instead of really polishing what they have.
When I develop for Flash, I stay away from the IDE as much as possible and use Eclipe/FDT/Ant instead. The IDE is just wasting my time for most tasks since it's slow and buggy and their recent interface overhaul was a major step back.
If they simply take what they have or even cut back a bit, make all of their products work together beautifully and easy to use, I think they will be fine. Right now it feels like they are chasing the latest and shiniest tech.
- elblanco 17y agoWell it's like they have no concept of maintenance at all in their product management. Literally they produce some code and never touch it again. Witness the hundreds of various similar UI elements in any single piece of their software, all of which act essentially the same. Why not go back and retrofix the old stuff? Because they don't maintain anything they've previously built. If they could solve the registry bug messaged previously by simply piling on some new features, it would be done. But since that's not how one fixes registry bugs, it'll never be done. It's like the Soviet model for building software. Build it once, build it shoddily, never maintain.