In June 1969, John E. Warnock achieved a milestone of sorts at the University of Utah by producing the shortest Ph.D. dissertation in the university's history.
Warnock, who died Saturday, was one of the leading computer scientists of his era and co-founder in 1982 of Adobe Inc.
the only way for companies to “compete” is by adding bloat and jacking up the price
I’ll disagree.
Adobe products only “seem” like they’re full of bloat, but they’re actually not: what they have, and makes them competitive, is tools for niche cases. These tools are useless for 99% of the users, even for those where an Adobe product does have a tool for their particular niche case… but otherwise, it wouldn’t be there.
When free alternatives have 99% of the most commonly used tools, the only remaining way to compete is to gather the remaining 1% and mash them together… along with the 99% of tools that are now a “have them or die”.
Whether you want to pay Adobe’s prices just to get the few tools that fit your niche… well, sometimes you have no alternative, or the alternative is even more niche and way more expensive.
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I’ll disagree.
Adobe products only “seem” like they’re full of bloat, but they’re actually not: what they have, and makes them competitive, is tools for niche cases. These tools are useless for 99% of the users, even for those where an Adobe product does have a tool for their particular niche case… but otherwise, it wouldn’t be there.
When free alternatives have 99% of the most commonly used tools, the only remaining way to compete is to gather the remaining 1% and mash them together… along with the 99% of tools that are now a “have them or die”.
Whether you want to pay Adobe’s prices just to get the few tools that fit your niche… well, sometimes you have no alternative, or the alternative is even more niche and way more expensive.
Can agree. There are so many features it is mind bogging especially to people who don’t have to use it. Very niche uses done well.