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And this is why Adobe is paying so much for Figma: they’ve built the kind of closed data garden that Adobe wants to own across its whole product range. Every y
by pavlov 4y ago
And this is why Adobe is paying so much for Figma: they’ve built the kind of closed data garden that Adobe wants to own across its whole product range.
Every year it becomes a bit harder to find the “default to local file system” setting in Photoshop (it’s off on a fresh install). Every year the UI for Creative Cloud files becomes a bit bigger. Eventually access to local files is probably going to be locked behind an administrator password with scary warning dialogs.
- 7952 4y agoExactly. They want to be the Microsoft teams of media. The individual apps are less important than the ecosystem and network effects.
- de_keyboard 4y agoI hate it but will probably pick up some stock.
- eurasiantiger 4y agoYou are an enabler. Are you not ashamed of your choices?
- glenneroo 4y agoYou can't even disable it completely, at best in e.g. Lightroom you can pause the cloud sync and it may get re-enabled without your consent. You will only notice that your upload bandwidth is suddenly saturated and if you have a monitoring tool installed, are you able to determine who is the culprit. It once chewed through my meager monthly quota overnight when I installed it on a laptop prior to going to a friend's house who didn't have internet while tethered to my phone. I was very unhappy about that "feature" to say the least.