The Brads - How to Alienate a Fanbase
April 28th, 2010
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Luke Jones
April 28, 2010 at 2:00 pmHaha, Adobe are hilarious.
I can imagine them releasing a “Feel Sorry For Us” application.
Brennan
April 28, 2010 at 2:00 pmYeah Luke, they would release “Feel Sorry For Us CS5” and nag-update that every month like Reader.
Josh Hemsley
April 28, 2010 at 2:00 pmHAHA Brilliant man!
Trent Walton
April 28, 2010 at 2:00 pmThis sums it up perfectly.
Jeff Finley
April 28, 2010 at 2:00 pmHah perfect Brad, I love the subtleties in this one. You amaze me! Do you have anything cool you could put in the 100 gift bags for WMC? Email me and let’s talk about something people will get a kick out of!
redwall_hp
April 28, 2010 at 2:00 pmI’m constantly surprised at how many people are taking Adobe’s side in the Flash on the iPad/iPhone thing.
I’m glad there’s finally a company pushing for ratified web standards over a de facto proprietary technology.
And I’m still using CS1 because, face it, what’s the point in upgrading? They don’t optimize their software for the Mac OS anymore, and apparently CS1 users don’t get the $500 upgrade price.
Iaian7
April 28, 2010 at 2:00 pmHilarious! Spreading the link on Twitter. :D
And Boab is absolutely correct! After Effects has been ~10x faster in Windows because Adobe won’t optimise it for Mac… they’ve had, what, 8 years to migrate to Cocoa (and released how many paid upgrades?)... they broke their own UI with animations that can completely stall an 8 core Xeon… etc. The list is endless.
Siedrix
April 28, 2010 at 2:00 pmGreat comic, thx for the lolz…
Rachel Nabors
April 28, 2010 at 2:00 pmAnd to think, in ye olden times, Adobe products were optimized to work best on Macs. What changed? Why the tough love?
ender
April 28, 2010 at 2:00 pmLove it! Sorry Jobs scooped you, but glad you published this. Adobe needs to get a grip.
Eric Wiley
April 28, 2010 at 2:00 pmI really like this one. Appreciate the subtle crowd fade, too.
Boab
April 28, 2010 at 2:00 pmThe funny thing is you could probably have another 6 panels demonstrating how shit Adobe have been.
Jane
April 28, 2010 at 2:00 pmGuess it’s all good I don’t have a Mac then :/
Aaron
April 28, 2010 at 2:00 pmHa! I like the dramatic loss of hair from 2009 to 2010
Johnny Rocket Creative
April 28, 2010 at 2:00 pmLove it! I have to say, I don’t feel too sorry for Adobe.
David
April 29, 2010 at 2:00 pmouch!
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Joseph Sims
April 29, 2010 at 2:00 pmAdobe really pulled away from the Mac-centric love affair when Apple started to collapse without Steve Jobs… Since he came back though, Apple’s been picking up steam consistently and while Adobe have been in a Windows-centric Mac-also workflow, Apple have become a force that you don’t want to ignore… their attitude to the Mac has gone downhill and now they are paying the karmic price. Although, I don’t think this is Apple’s reasoning for it. I think Jobso’s letter pretty much sums it up.
Dawson
April 29, 2010 at 2:00 pmto: Clark
re: “Are you serious?!?! Apple’s entire business model is built on a fiendish devotion to closed, proprietary technology.”
Way to parrot the adobe fanboi line. While apple may like their closed, proprietary technology (of which I’m a proud booster), their work in web standards has been exemplary. WebKit and its support of web standards is just one example. Making the Mac ands it children (ipad, iphone, itouch) first class web citizens has been a priority for them and I for one applaud them for their efforts. I will not miss adobe when its gone (notice I didn’t just say flash). I’ve been frustrated for years over their treatment of mac users as 2nd class citizens so I say good riddance to bad rubbish.
Ben Bodien
April 29, 2010 at 2:00 pmBrilliant!
Why not also show them redesigning their logo on the pedestal every year, as per the continuous Creative Suite rebrands.
Clark
April 29, 2010 at 2:00 pm“I’m glad there’s finally a company pushing for ratified web standards over a de facto proprietary technology.”
Are you serious?!?! Apple’s entire business model is built on a fiendish devotion to closed, proprietary technology. The only reason they seem to be supporting open standards on the web is it makes them money. Flash doesn’t. Which is fine, it’d just be nice if they were more honest about it.
Awesome
April 29, 2010 at 2:00 pmYes, and I’ve been hating Adobe when there was still a Macromedia to hate as well, they were my #1 and #2 hates, they even relegated MSFT to #3
Sebastian
April 29, 2010 at 2:00 pmJust perfect. Bravo!
Helen
April 29, 2010 at 2:00 pmI´m going back to FlashMX ;D
Hate all these upgrades that is not backwards compatible, I get CS5 files now and I am so not paying for another upgrade even I love Flash more than anything else on my computer. I ask for CS4 or else sorry.
Bradford Dielman
May 3, 2010 at 10:01 pmHilarious (and timely) as always.
Tanja
May 4, 2010 at 4:18 amI love Adobe for ignoring Apple, let them rant in their super cool stylish fashion with products that break after a year and keep supporting real PCs. Thank you Adobe, I love you.
Martha
May 4, 2010 at 11:11 amYou left out the part where Adobe relegated modification of animated gifs to Fireworks, instead of making it a fully integrated part of Photoshop. Evil Bastards!
Stomme poes
May 6, 2010 at 7:22 amHm, it’s not just Macs they hate. I use zero Adobe products, and it’s pretty much because they hateses the Linux, hateses them!
Drunken Economist
May 7, 2010 at 12:15 pmIt gets WORSE boyz n girlz. The FTC complaint that ‘Adobe products are being barred from iPhone Development.’
O rly? Then what are Photoshop & Illustrator doin’ makin’ icons and controlz in ur iPhone Appz?
Adobe, keep suckin’ hard, doin’ what you do…
-Drunken Economist
http://mindtaker.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/drunk_economist
Jack
May 7, 2010 at 11:14 pmTanja - “I love Adobe for ignoring Apple, let them rant in their super cool stylish fashion with products that break after a year”
Funny, my first Mac has been running since 2005 with no issues or problems. My second runs Windows natively and lets me enjoy the best of both worlds. Use what you enjoy and that works for you but don’t think you are better than anyone just because you prefer something over another.
I’ve used Microsoft based computers for 20 years and Macs for 5 and I have enjoyed both. The Mac user vs PC user shtick is getting old. No strike that, it got old about a decade ago.
Debiprasad Sahoo
May 11, 2010 at 11:03 amApart from the original concept behind this blog, I love the transition of the speaker as time flows.
lucas ramos
May 19, 2010 at 9:41 pmwhy upgrade to cs5? which are the differences? flash vs standard? never.
adobe sucks! great comic
Adam
July 6, 2010 at 11:41 amAdobe > Apple
Apple are bigger whores than Adobe could ever be, talk about bringing out better models of iPhones that arn’t actually better, oh look the iFail 4!
Next monthe the iPhone 4 Type R will be out and will have 10seconds longer battery life and be 0.001mm thinner.
And then in 3months time the iPhone 4 Type RR will be out boasting a whole 0.1 megapixel better camera with a whole 5minutes longer talk time.
Talk about being on the apple bandwagon.
artisans
July 28, 2010 at 11:26 pmHa. S’funny. Adam hates Apples. As it always has been, it seems.
Not me. I just hate Adobe.
NetHawk
July 29, 2010 at 5:16 amImagine what would happen if everybody would reject the next (overpriced and underfeatured) upgrade…?
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