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Adobe always seems to me like some sort of schizophrenic or multiple-personalities nice-guy + psychopath. One day, he's babysitting for the neighbour, watering

by swombat 17y ago

Adobe always seems to me like some sort of schizophrenic or multiple-personalities nice-guy + psychopath. One day, he's babysitting for the neighbour, watering your plants and taking out the trash, and talking about how he's going to fix the potholes in the street. The next day, he's walking out of your house with a blood-spattered knife, and you never see your dog again. And I say this as someone whose start-up uses Flex heavily. It's worrying. Can you rely on that kind of character? More importantly, it's uncompetitive. Flex is still the best tool for a lot of RIA jobs at the moment, but the assorted collection of AJAX toolkits out there has been catching up, slowly but surely, and eventually they'll overtake Flex. What a waste, considering what they could do with Flex if they actually sorted themselves out.

mahmud 17y ago
Adobe always seems to me like some sort of schizophrenic or multiple-personalities nice-guy + psychopath. Welcome to Large Organization Inc. It's hard to synchronize the corporate message when there are too many contending departments, each being influenced by the segment of society they're most in contact with: the Community Relations department and its staff become more and more in tune with web users and developers, while sales department becomes more and more like the big-studio executives they hang out and correspond with all day.
- anigbrowl 17y ago
  The really aggravating thing about large companies (and I like Adobe) is that due to worries about IP and so on, it's virtually impossible to submit a feature idea and get a response. I know a great open-standard way they could improve the functionality of their video editing & compositing software (thus creating value and getting a further edge on their competitors), but short of ambushing a senior developer in the parking lot and shoving the use case and pseudocode into his/her hand, there's no easy way to do it :-)

by swombat 17y ago

mahmud 17y ago

Adobe always seems to me like some sort of schizophrenic or multiple-personalities nice-guy + psychopath. Welcome to Large Organization Inc. It's hard to synchronize the corporate message when there are too many contending departments, each being influenced by the segment of society they're most in contact with: the Community Relations department and its staff become more and more in tune with web users and developers, while sales department becomes more and more like the big-studio executives they hang out and correspond with all day.

anigbrowl 17y ago
The really aggravating thing about large companies (and I like Adobe) is that due to worries about IP and so on, it's virtually impossible to submit a feature idea and get a response. I know a great open-standard way they could improve the functionality of their video editing & compositing software (thus creating value and getting a further edge on their competitors), but short of ambushing a senior developer in the parking lot and shoving the use case and pseudocode into his/her hand, there's no easy way to do it :-)