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Or...updates nobody asked for. Quite a few casual users might be perfectly happy with Office 2003, or Adobe PS6, as anything after that they don't need. And not
by fleddr 5y ago
Or...updates nobody asked for. Quite a few casual users might be perfectly happy with Office 2003, or Adobe PS6, as anything after that they don't need. And not just that, they may not want the UI to be revamped every 2 months. The option to just have stable, working software is increasingly taken away.
Not to mention the anti competitive nature of these two parties. They can just bundle an additional app in their subscription at not additional cost, and this way drive a competitor out of business.
- ponow 5y agoThere is a serious amount of diversity on the app stores, though. It's not as if you must use Photoshop, with zero alternatives.
- pards 5y agoLike https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29983959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29983959 Forced updates that remove or disable features people use.
- can16358p 5y agoReminds me of XD versus Sketch. Adobe created and added XD (Sketch competitor) and put it into its CC. Sketch's still doing great but I honestly don't know how long it will be the case as XD becomes more mature.
- hunter-gatherer 5y agoYour point needs more attention IMO. Most updates for most software don't add usability or convenience for the end user. The way conversational rhetoric with my family and friends seems to have transitioned from "wow, these computers are cool! This will really help with x" to complete frustration.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoJonathan Blow posted something a while back I thought was interesting: type "frustrating" into Google image search. Notice anything about the results? https://www.google.com/search?q=frustrating&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=frustrating&tbm=isch
- AlanYx 5y agoYes -- and subscriptions in some sense may worsen this problem, in that subscriptions create an incentive towards ongoing interface and feature churn, to create a notional justification for ongoing revenue.
- aceazzameen 5y agoThey have to justify that subscription right? Every yearly version upgrade of Adobe is filled with productivity-breaking bugs that don't get fixed until months later. Everywhere I've worked, artists know not to update to the latest Photoshop until the first patches are released and it's been evaluated. Why should a subscriber put up with that? The only recourse is to not subscribe, which isn't an option if you're content with a current version of the software.