Bye, bye Adobe

>"This is nothing more than a big player strong-arming its user base and milking it for money. Adobe, not cool."

I hope that nobody is actually surprised by this. I mean, the second Adobe announced that it was moving to a cloud service, this is the thought I had, and I'm no prophet.

Because this is basically the same kind of crap you have to deal with for just about every subscription, in every medium.

This is typical of the tech industry, making it hard to cancel an account so you are forced to stay a customer and return. I think AOL used to do that, and had to pay to cancel your account.

Bloatware is nothing new either.

Instead of Photoshop some people would rather use Gimp: http://www.gimp.org/

I've found Adobe products to have interactive performance poor enough to be considered 'unusable' for even small workflows on a GBP1500 Haswell MBA - the only other piece of software that's has the same level of latency is Eclipse.

Thanks god for Sketch.

Wow, I see Rami had his cancellation fee waived! I had to fork out another $75 for cancellation and wasn't even allowed to use the product for the remainder of the period.

Adobe? Never again.

Using Inkscape now for Illustrator replacement. Mixed results.

I rolled with CS5 for so long until the burden of asking clients to provide backwards compatible source files became too large.

It's both remarkable and a shame to see how far the suite has come since the days of Photoshop 1.07 on my old Apple.

Regardless, I'll stand by Rami for the decade it'll take for competing software to mature.

Everyone where I work is using Sketch now. No, seriously -- Adobe should be very worried. People who have used ACS for years are jumping ship by the dozens.

I can see why this is frustrating, but did you really need to be such a dick to the support agent?