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Re:Adobe XD, where did it go wrong? by mistrial9 on Saturday February 12, 2022 @09:37AM (#30313095)
as someone from the 90s desktop publishing scene myself, I would say that the parent post is accurate from the seat of a person faced with the transition to cloud. 26 million subscribers and growing, reflects network power, ease of acquisition of new customers, institutional users, and just basically people on the further edges of the original "boom". Just because the current model does build and grow subscriptions per month, at those prices, under those terms, does not mean that the observations from the seat of an individual person, is wrong or invalid.

"After the customers left" might mean "after the customers who thrived in the previous era left", and then you would both be right.

Re:Adobe XD, where did it go wrong? by ethbr0 on Saturday February 12, 2022 @12:13PM (#30314362)
Enterprise / consumer split perspective.

Enterprise loves SaaS, because it solves problems they had (smoothing out purchasing, avoiding endless reauthorization and upgrade planning coordination), while not creating any problems (because they were always going to upgrade anyway). Hence the uptake and good numbers.

A lot of consumers hate SaaS, because it solves no problems they had (purchasing and upgrading were easy, if they chose), and creates new problems. They had previously been able to create indistinguishable output with an older version, albeit missing some features, to minimize recurring cost. And now that's no longer an option.

So you've made things easier for a group that spends a ton of money, but doesn't speak publicly on the internet (enterprise), which makes your metrics look nice. And you've made things harder / impossible for a group that does speak publicly on the internet (consumers), which makes your sentiment look bad.

So yes, both.

Re:Adobe XD, where did it go wrong? by chris_wot on Saturday February 12, 2022 @12:19PM (#30314414)
I have used Adobe CC under a few companies. It has a bad habit of not allowing you to login, either producing a white screen or looping back to the login prompt. The only resolution has been to fully uninstall and reinstall it.

Very frustrating. Extremely hard to deploy via management tools.

Re:Adobe XD, where did it go wrong? by ethbr0 on Saturday February 12, 2022 @12:45PM (#30314654)
I should have caveated that: web-based SaaS. Adobe's installers have always felt like Microsoft-levels of legacy preservation ("We'll just wrap +1 layer over top, and avoid changing anything underneath") without Microsoft-levels of technical architecture talent.