"Adobe ignored reader problem for 2 years, now ignoring solution"
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From the link (a tl;dr, if you will):
"""Adobe Reader comes with Adobe's PDF preview handler but the installer has a mistake which means the preview handler does not work on 64-bit systems. People have been complaining about this for over two years with no official response. It turns out the problem can be fixed via a simple registry change.
(Update: Months have passed since I discovered the fix and Adobe still haven't corrected their installer. Having ignored the problem for over two years Adobe seem intent on ignoring the solution as well. That's despite me doing the research for them, giving away the fix for free and having hundreds of grateful people confirm that it works. What a useless company.)
I wish I could bill Adobe for my time fixing their mess. The ridiculous thing is that whenever we've tried to officially inform Adobe of bugs in their code (like blindly calling through a null pointer after a failed QueryInterface), bugs which we've found and worked around for ourselves but which may cause problems for other people, they've asked us to pay them for a support contract. WTF? Who is supporting whom here, exactly?"""
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.
It's like the Soviet model for building software. Build it once, build it shoddily, never maintain.