Rogue
12th April 2007, 00:21
Adobe Creative Suite 3 - May We Call It Bloatware?
IT-Enquirer's Erik Vlietinck spends a little time with Adobe's forthcoming suite of tools and posts his opinions...
After having spent three weeks with the entire Creative Suite 3 for Web and Print Production, there is no longer any sense in denying it: much of CS3 is hypeware. InDesign CS3 is a disappointment, Photoshop CS3 Extended will appeal especially to scientists and medical users but there’s little to entice photographers.
Dreamweaver CS3 is even worse: it looks the same as the previous version, has roughly the same quirks. New to Dreamweaver CS3 is the Spry Framework for creating AJAX, a novelty that is a problem by itself. Fireworks CS3 looks a lot like Fireworks 8, and so does Flash CS3. In fact, the only real awesome improvements I saw were Adobe Illustrator CS3, Version Cue 3 and Bridge.
It is said that software is a consumer-driven market. Software developers claim they are listening to what users want and then upgrade their software on a regular basis to reflect those desires, called “needs” in the industry. But as far as I can remember, there has never been a software upgrade that fulfilled most users’ needs, and it seems the larger the company, the more it does what it well pleases without listening to customers at all.
Adobe is such a large company --it’s huge-- and while it has some geniuses working for them as software engineers and project managers (Thomas Knoll comes to mind, but they are plenty), it doesn’t manage to listen to its customers well. With little competition left, it’s easy to just do as you please. And Adobe is doing just that. Take for example, the (once again) re-designed interface palettes. I don’t recall users craving for newly designed palettes.
Read more (http://www.it-enquirer.com/main/ite/more/cs3)
IT-Enquirer's Erik Vlietinck spends a little time with Adobe's forthcoming suite of tools and posts his opinions...
After having spent three weeks with the entire Creative Suite 3 for Web and Print Production, there is no longer any sense in denying it: much of CS3 is hypeware. InDesign CS3 is a disappointment, Photoshop CS3 Extended will appeal especially to scientists and medical users but there’s little to entice photographers.
Dreamweaver CS3 is even worse: it looks the same as the previous version, has roughly the same quirks. New to Dreamweaver CS3 is the Spry Framework for creating AJAX, a novelty that is a problem by itself. Fireworks CS3 looks a lot like Fireworks 8, and so does Flash CS3. In fact, the only real awesome improvements I saw were Adobe Illustrator CS3, Version Cue 3 and Bridge.
It is said that software is a consumer-driven market. Software developers claim they are listening to what users want and then upgrade their software on a regular basis to reflect those desires, called “needs” in the industry. But as far as I can remember, there has never been a software upgrade that fulfilled most users’ needs, and it seems the larger the company, the more it does what it well pleases without listening to customers at all.
Adobe is such a large company --it’s huge-- and while it has some geniuses working for them as software engineers and project managers (Thomas Knoll comes to mind, but they are plenty), it doesn’t manage to listen to its customers well. With little competition left, it’s easy to just do as you please. And Adobe is doing just that. Take for example, the (once again) re-designed interface palettes. I don’t recall users craving for newly designed palettes.
Read more (http://www.it-enquirer.com/main/ite/more/cs3)