{"id":13953,"date":"2016-03-23T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13953"},"modified":"2017-07-21T09:18:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T13:18:03","slug":"adobe-jumps-the-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/23\/adobe-jumps-the-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Jumps the Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glennreid.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/adobe-jumps-shark.html\">Glenn Reid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/glennreid.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/adobe-jumps-shark.html\">\n<p>I have never had such miserable experiences with installers, updaters, subscriptions forced upon me, crashing applications, and overall lack of awesomeness.  If Adobe is in decline, it&rsquo;s Adobe&rsquo;s own fault.  You don&rsquo;t have to sit back and be old and pointless.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>You have all seen Adobe Air update messages -- two a week for a while there -- without any idea of what Adobe Air is, or why you want it, or why it needs to be upgraded.  But this is the one that sent me over the edge today, as I was concentrating on some work that I was doing.  Up pops the most useless dialog box ever, to interrupt my concentration.  You launch an updater to tell me that I don&rsquo;t need to update?  Really?<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s a little secret: if people start to hate your products and your business practices, you won&rsquo;t have recurring revenue for long.  The <em>recurring<\/em> part is based on trust and value. At this point, you are losing both.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2016-03-23): See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/14\/record-adobe-revenue\/\">Record Adobe Revenue<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oluseyidotinfo\/status\/712694122788757504\">Oluseyi Sonaiya<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Reid: I have never had such miserable experiences with installers, updaters, subscriptions forced upon me, crashing applications, and overall lack of awesomeness. If Adobe is in decline, it&rsquo;s Adobe&rsquo;s own fault. You don&rsquo;t have to sit back and be old and pointless. [&#8230;] You have all seen Adobe Air update messages -- two a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[563,447,1356,1325,1421,131,101,30,32],"class_list":["post-13953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-acrobat","tag-adobe","tag-adobe-air","tag-adobe-creative-cloud","tag-app-subscriptions","tag-bug","tag-business","tag-mac","tag-macapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13959,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13953\/revisions\/13959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}