Comments on: Dear Adobe: Why I won’t upgrade to the latest Creative Suite 5

By: James

James — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:18:42 +0000

Once again I’ll point out that the article was a joke. It was making fun of people who complain about these things every time Adobe updates their software.

By: Pustoolio

Pustoolio — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:27:50 +0000

Oh poor clueless Guntis. sigh.

By: Guntis

Guntis — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:17:36 +0000

I think rewriting CS in Cocoa was good move. I’m sick of looking at Mac version which looks and behaves like Windows version. In CS5 they moved to the right direction. Improvements in Photoshop and Illustrator are dramatic and this time I really consider buying some sort of CS bundle. First time Illustrator seems to be usable. I switched to Mac 7 years ago and constantly felt pain not having CorelDRAW on Mac. (There was v.11, but it crashed every 2-3 minutes, sometimes without any interaction, just being open, so I couldn’t use it). Bezier editing in CorelDRAW was so much easier! Plus masking, powerclips and multiple pages. Now finally looks like Adobe has caught CorelDRAW. It took them 7 years…

By: Guntis

Guntis — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:07:59 +0000

First you mention that CS5 has become bloatware, ask to stop adding new features, then in the end ask for more features to upgrade… So what’s your point?
Secondly, Intel and PowerPC are two different architectures, and test so big suite on both architectures in a given time span is way too much. If you’re designer who’s still working on G4, shame to you! I thought that minimum entry fee is iMac 24″. Or maybe if you just make small matchbox logos, then G4 could do the trick… but then you don’t need CS5.
The only two things about which I agree is price and software titles in those bundles. Price is way too high. I can not afford to buy $1800 suite, it should be somewhere in the range of $500-600, and Photoshop about $200, upgrade $60-80. Perhaps then more people could afford genuine software, they wouldn’t have to fight piracy so much and develop software activation features…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:44:17 +0000

What a laugh, I particularly loved the comment about not upgrading given the CS1 you downloaded on Limewire still works well haha! I came here thinking I was going to read about problems early adopters might be having in CS5, this was so much better!