Adobe took one of the most widely used content creation software pipelines – Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, After Effects – and enshitified it and raised the price until nobody wants to use it.
ovo_Reddit on
I can’t blame someone for not wanting to take part in this AI fuckfest. If I was CEO for 18 years, assuming I had some financial sense, I’d be set for life. Now seems like a great time to retire.
desxentrising on
it’s ALMOST like people don’t like a bunch of shitty pop ups pushing their 100 new half assed AI integrations and deceitful methods to push subscriptions . almost.
TrumpisaRussianCuck on
The woes of the creative cloud side of the business are well known but the digital experience side of the business that makes up like 25% of their revenue is also a joke. They went out on an acquisition spree to build it and then never properly integrated it all together so it’s a hodge podge of shit that they sold to enterprise clients with a good sales team. Most enterprises have now woken up to that.
SmokedAlex on
Is this why I get “AI suggestions” to summarize a 2-page pdf because it is “too long”?
Cube00 on
Thanks to Adobe for pioneering the idea if you cancel early you have to pay out the remaining year as a “cancellation fee”
jantoxdetox on
They should rename it Adobe Intelligence – AI its in the game!
ARazorbacks on
I’ll tell you what Adobe is delivering. They’re auto-turning on their AI bullshit in Adobe Acrobat and sending the documents you open to their cloud without telling you. Just like Microsoft did with their Onedrive scam.
All of these mother fuckers are actively stealing our documents.
TESThrowSmile on
Last thing I need is AI in my PDFs , no thx
WA3Travels on
I feel like it’s insane how they avoid the screaming. WE DOn’T WANT AI IF IT COSTS SO MUCH AND YOU ACTIVELY HATE YOUR CUSTOMERS.
darren_meier on
Adobe has been really struggling for a while to figure out how to implement AI into their subscription services in a way people actually desire. I remember searching the forums for how to solve a random issue in illustrator and one of the comments was an answer from an Adobe support person *soliciting people to offer feedback about new ways they’d like to see Adobe use AI in Illustrator.* The response was… very predictable, very direct, and *painfully* unkind.
TLDR: Adobe is slowly discovering abandoning their core competencies to shoehorn AI into every nook and cranny is an excellent way to lose their userbase.
Candid_Cat_5921 on
A lot of the stuff “normal consumers” used Photoshop for can now be done with annotations and prompts in <choose your favorite LLM>. Adobe has a very tough road ahead.
mrwaterhouse on
They tried so hard to catch AI and saw it coming so clearly but without a foundation model there’s no chance
pat8u3 on
Why are shareholders so damn gung-ho about ai, this is the worst way for a technological advancement to happen, shareholders en masse know nothing about tech
Old-Bat-7384 on
How about less AI, less bloat, better optimization, and lower non-enterprise license fees?
They’re doing Microsoft level shit and coasting real hard on smart decisions made decades ago and finding new ways to fuck that up.
luffydkenshin on
Shareholders mounting pressure to deliver AI.
Consumers mounting pressure *not* to deliver AI.
aubergineshinobi on
Used to be Inkscape was the cheaper and slightly clunkier Illustrator. Reading these comments has me wondering if it’s now just strictly better.
Inkscape forever 🫶
yeahnoyeahsure on
Photoshop is sooooo expensive. When I was a kid you bought the cd rom and were set. You only upgraded when the new software got cool enough or your old software would run on your new OS. Bring back flat rate software purchases
Arnold_Shortzweather on
I feel like Adobe has driven so many people away to different software through too many different ways – price hikes, mandatory subscriptions, AI slop software, that it might be too late for them to regain their market share.
boot2skull on
Who wants to pay for photoshop if it’s going to do everything for you? The point is to enable us to create. If they push AI they’re just another AI image generator.
Ok-Region6452 on
Every adobe software has turned into a pile of Ai bloatware. I stopped using acrobat for pdf due to their unsolicited bloatware
Gloriathewitch on
what pressure? basically noone asked for AI and theres virtually no evidence that it would boost productivity or profits, the whole industry is a giant scam and we need to let it die just like nfts
Footy_Max on
We dumped Acrobat at our office because of the AI nonsense. Couldn’t turn it off. So now Adobe gets $0 from us.
subrimichi on
all these big mouthed ceos are failures in the long run, all of them. The ceo job is the most useless one of a company and should and can be replaced with AI asap. Good for shareholders as they dont have to pay somebody millions to then lie to them.
astrobagel on
There’s no company I have more conflicting feeling towards than Adobe.
I actually don’t have any conflict. They’re the worst company! I do like their software. Yar Har Fiddle-Dee-Dee! Though I do hate the AI shit they’ve been pushing as of late.
Agreeable_Deer9163 on
New idea: stop wasting money on updating the tools to appease shareholders. AI is not desired by most people. Why create something without a solid business case? Do what you’re good at, fix the problems with those tools, then enhance the tools with features that people actually want.
Not a single one of these tech bros actually gives a shit about the consumer anymore. It’s all about how to exploit the consumer for short-term gains, whether it be public or private, real or manufactured.
Everything around us is turning into dog shit that we don’t even get to own.
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AI efficiency has claimed his job lol
Adobe took one of the most widely used content creation software pipelines – Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, After Effects – and enshitified it and raised the price until nobody wants to use it.
I can’t blame someone for not wanting to take part in this AI fuckfest. If I was CEO for 18 years, assuming I had some financial sense, I’d be set for life. Now seems like a great time to retire.
it’s ALMOST like people don’t like a bunch of shitty pop ups pushing their 100 new half assed AI integrations and deceitful methods to push subscriptions . almost.
The woes of the creative cloud side of the business are well known but the digital experience side of the business that makes up like 25% of their revenue is also a joke. They went out on an acquisition spree to build it and then never properly integrated it all together so it’s a hodge podge of shit that they sold to enterprise clients with a good sales team. Most enterprises have now woken up to that.
Is this why I get “AI suggestions” to summarize a 2-page pdf because it is “too long”?
Thanks to Adobe for pioneering the idea if you cancel early you have to pay out the remaining year as a “cancellation fee”
They should rename it Adobe Intelligence – AI its in the game!
I’ll tell you what Adobe is delivering. They’re auto-turning on their AI bullshit in Adobe Acrobat and sending the documents you open to their cloud without telling you. Just like Microsoft did with their Onedrive scam.
All of these mother fuckers are actively stealing our documents.
Last thing I need is AI in my PDFs , no thx
I feel like it’s insane how they avoid the screaming. WE DOn’T WANT AI IF IT COSTS SO MUCH AND YOU ACTIVELY HATE YOUR CUSTOMERS.
Adobe has been really struggling for a while to figure out how to implement AI into their subscription services in a way people actually desire. I remember searching the forums for how to solve a random issue in illustrator and one of the comments was an answer from an Adobe support person *soliciting people to offer feedback about new ways they’d like to see Adobe use AI in Illustrator.* The response was… very predictable, very direct, and *painfully* unkind.
TLDR: Adobe is slowly discovering abandoning their core competencies to shoehorn AI into every nook and cranny is an excellent way to lose their userbase.
A lot of the stuff “normal consumers” used Photoshop for can now be done with annotations and prompts in <choose your favorite LLM>. Adobe has a very tough road ahead.
They tried so hard to catch AI and saw it coming so clearly but without a foundation model there’s no chance
Why are shareholders so damn gung-ho about ai, this is the worst way for a technological advancement to happen, shareholders en masse know nothing about tech
How about less AI, less bloat, better optimization, and lower non-enterprise license fees?
They’re doing Microsoft level shit and coasting real hard on smart decisions made decades ago and finding new ways to fuck that up.
Shareholders mounting pressure to deliver AI.
Consumers mounting pressure *not* to deliver AI.
Used to be Inkscape was the cheaper and slightly clunkier Illustrator. Reading these comments has me wondering if it’s now just strictly better.
Inkscape forever 🫶
Photoshop is sooooo expensive. When I was a kid you bought the cd rom and were set. You only upgraded when the new software got cool enough or your old software would run on your new OS. Bring back flat rate software purchases
I feel like Adobe has driven so many people away to different software through too many different ways – price hikes, mandatory subscriptions, AI slop software, that it might be too late for them to regain their market share.
Who wants to pay for photoshop if it’s going to do everything for you? The point is to enable us to create. If they push AI they’re just another AI image generator.
Every adobe software has turned into a pile of Ai bloatware. I stopped using acrobat for pdf due to their unsolicited bloatware
what pressure? basically noone asked for AI and theres virtually no evidence that it would boost productivity or profits, the whole industry is a giant scam and we need to let it die just like nfts
We dumped Acrobat at our office because of the AI nonsense. Couldn’t turn it off. So now Adobe gets $0 from us.
all these big mouthed ceos are failures in the long run, all of them. The ceo job is the most useless one of a company and should and can be replaced with AI asap. Good for shareholders as they dont have to pay somebody millions to then lie to them.
There’s no company I have more conflicting feeling towards than Adobe.
I actually don’t have any conflict. They’re the worst company! I do like their software. Yar Har Fiddle-Dee-Dee! Though I do hate the AI shit they’ve been pushing as of late.
New idea: stop wasting money on updating the tools to appease shareholders. AI is not desired by most people. Why create something without a solid business case? Do what you’re good at, fix the problems with those tools, then enhance the tools with features that people actually want.
Not a single one of these tech bros actually gives a shit about the consumer anymore. It’s all about how to exploit the consumer for short-term gains, whether it be public or private, real or manufactured.
Everything around us is turning into dog shit that we don’t even get to own.
AI is useless
Good. He was terrible for consumers