> One of the reasons I stopped buying Adobe products is the > clandestine way they EOL them. > > GoLive, Fireworks, LiveMotion, maybe more - all had > development stop months or years before any public disclosure > of the EOL decision. > > This led many of us to buy products that were effectively > already dead, no upgrade path and non-working just an OS > update or two later. > > Repeated requests from many in the user community for > clarification of EOL status went without reply. > > Not cool, preventing consumers from making informed > purchasing decisions. I and many others stopped doing > business with them after those.
While I can appreciate as a publicly traded company, Adobe needs to remain closed mouthed about things, the situation should make anyone thing twice about supporting the Adobe hegemony any more than necessary. Very, very few updates came out for Director after Adobe acquired it. They've been slowly strangling it over the years, rather than doing right by their customers and selling it off when they could. I think there are many companies that look to the Adobe model of doing business with envy. Microsoft (to some extent) and Autodesk (all in!) are following the same business model, and seducing customers based on the most transient of selling points, which is pricing model. Once they reach the point in which individual customers no longer have viable alternatives (the pain of 'unsubscribing' is business destroying), they can increase or shift pricing. This is banking on the short sightedness of customers and sadly many have embraced it like a severe diabetic wolfing down a carton of twinkies every day. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
