I think Adobe's got the same issues with the Creative Suite as Microsoft has with Office: their products have been feature-complete for years, and everyone who needs them already owns them. So to sell more copies, they mess around with the UI. The only reason I went to CS3 was to get a Universal Binary - how crappy is that?
Like Office, the real problems are so deeply ingrained that to fix them you kinda have to throw out the baby, the bath-water, and most of the bathroom. Adobe and Microsoft have neither the desire nor the ability to compete on that level (they'd be mad to try, although I suppose Lightroom totally counts).
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Date: 2009-05-13 12:38 pm (UTC)Like Office, the real problems are so deeply ingrained that to fix them you kinda have to throw out the baby, the bath-water, and most of the bathroom. Adobe and Microsoft have neither the desire nor the ability to compete on that level (they'd be mad to try, although I suppose Lightroom totally counts).