JWSC

neoncat said:

JWSC said:

Does this indicate Adobe’s decline in relevance?  Years ago I was all in on Adobe.  But they priced themselves out of the non-commercial market and I dropped them like a hot potato.

What a weird take. But I get it, you just wanted to old-man-at-clouds about Adobe's subscription pricing. Go ahead and review every other structured drawing program on the Mac or iOS. Guess what file format they all use—some of them wrapped in their own file package, but they're all EPS at the core. It's *the* mathematical model for object drawing.

More I'd say it indicates Preview.app's decline in relevance. 

I don't think you understood where I was coming from.

I loved Adobe's products.  I was all over Illustrator when it first came out.  Learning about the power of splines and how easy it was to create smooth lines was an eye opener.  Same with Photoshop.  I read through their beautifully crafted manuals (way back when they made such things) and devoured everything.  Same with PageMaker and then InDesign.

I rarely used those those tools for commercial work - mostly for my own creative endeavors.  Then Adobe jacked up it's prices by something like 300-400%.  It was outrageous.  Later they went to a subscription model - all geared toward commercial production and cutting out the home user market. The price elasticity curve didn't include home or casual users.  Microsoft certainly markets to corporate users.  But they never forgot home users.  Adobe left us high and dry.  Fortunately, we now have much less expensive alternatives, many of which have similar interfaces that Adobe pioneered.

DAalseth said:

What’s going to be funny is the scale of this failure. He has said that he was going to clean up Twitter, let it be a free speech zone, and eliminate the bots. These are mutually exclusive, and contradictory wishes. What’s more, if he fails at any of them, he fails. If he does something the current users don’t like, he fails. If he does nothing he fails. If he tries something totally out of left field and overhauls how Twitter works and operates, it won’t work, and he fails. There is literally no way Musk can do anything with Twitter without looking like he screwed up, and without losing a s***ton of money. He literally cannot win this one. Musk thought he was the golden boy that could do no wrong, and is about to be proven terribly wrong.

Sounds like the nattering nabobs of negativism who said no one could create reusable rockets.

Twitter has been running on empty for the last few years.  Their heavy focus on political content moderation has diverted their attention from improving user experience and fighting bots and similar fake accounts.  Twitter invented and owned this space. But their misguided focus has opened a window of opportunity for new competing platforms and people have been leaving for these platforms.

Musk will move to verify all accounts.  He will fire roughly 75% of the workforce that appears to be focused on political moderation and censorship.  Good riddance.  He will clean up the mishmash of algorithms that compartmentalized people into likeminded demographics without them even knowing.

Twitter is a hot mess but it has great potential.  Musk sees that very clearly.  He loves the platform.

Hermetically sealed iPhones - no ports.  End of story.

Does this indicate Adobe’s decline in relevance?  Years ago I was all in on Adobe.  But they priced themselves out of the non-commercial market and I dropped them like a hot potato.

I went to an AT&T store two Fridays ago and ordered the iPhone 14 Pro with terabyte storage and it showed up a week later last Friday.  Migration from my iPhone 11 Pro was seamless.

I’m blown away when I compare the camera lens sizes on the 14 Pro to the 11 Pro.  The iPhone 14 Pro camera lenses are huge!