Kettle, you're black.
Adobe 9 [dive into mark] goes into the initial sins discovered trying to install Acrobat 9 and all the crap and inconvenience that comes with it. Additionals:
Back when I was on Microsoft InfoPath, I saw the genesis of Acrobat into more than a convenient reader of PDF files but rather a whole new platform that Adobe wanted to scale up into, leveraging the wide distribution they got with Acrobat being a useful PDF reader (providing high-fidelity rendering in a low-fidelity HTML world). Form editing and more. Who knew Acrobat would be a competitor for an Office product?
And then they started glomming and glomming and glomming technology. And they have made Acrobat a performance pig.
Acrobat has become a clumsy vector for delivery of Adobe strategy. That seems like a violation of trust. One that reaps a black, bitter harvest.
Like, you know, my new HP desktop having a one-off PDF reader for the traditional use of plain ole PDF. Reading.
¶ 7/04/2008 05:58:00 PM
