E36: Adobe is Legacy Software. What Does The Future Look Like?
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This is The Thirty Sixth Episode of the Visual Scholar Podcast - With Tim Mcburnie.
Let's talk Adobe...
There is a lot of drama and outrage aimed at Adobe. I normally stay away from this stuff on the Visual Scholar... But people often ask for my opinion as I do use Adobe products, and teach people how to use them.
So this episode is dedicated to my thoughts on the future of Photoshop. But as you know if you have been following this show, it won't be simple, and I will weave in some more interesting topics.
I want to walk though:
1 What we should expect from Software as artists 2 What can we learn by looking closer at Adobe Inc 3 What Ethics, Morality, Publicly traded companies... and AI say about the future of Customer/Product Symbiosis.
So yeah... This is a long form essay. That no one really asked for. But if you want to rise above the noise and outrage FUD... strap in!
CHAPTERS:
- 00:00:00 Intro
- 00:03:03 Welcome
- 00:03:28 What's My Take On This?
- 00:07:07 What Good Creative Software Needs To Be... The Dangers of Switching
- 00:08:45 That Time I Gave Up Photoshop For Corel Painter...
- 00:14:56 Reliability...
- 00:15:33 Learning & Community
- 00:16:55 Different Artists Need Different Features... Pro Vs The Rest
- 00:19:06 Professional Features (That Most People Don't Care About)
- 00:20:06 Production Integration
- 00:21:16 Chameleon: Photoshop Can Be Many Things
- 00:23:27 Extensibility
- 00:26:51 Real Professional Reliability
- 00:30:03 Speeed
- 00:32:03 TLDR: Bugs And Tech Hurdles Can Ruin Your Art Flow
- 00:33:11 What About Adobe As A Company (Evil INC)
- 00:33:50 The History... Aggressive Monopoly
- 00:35:22 Adobe The Dinosaur (Legacy Software and Legacy Attitude)
- 00:38:19 Adobe Is Struggling To Be A Modern SAAS Company
- 00:39:15 Publicly Traded Companies Can't Take Care Of Their Customers.
- 00:39:58 The Silicon Valley Hype Cycle
- 00:41:17 Symbiosis: How Good Software Is Made
- 00:43:24 The Protopian Ideal
- 00:44:58 Incentives: It's Not A Matter of Good Or Evil.
- 00:50:37 What Does The Future Of Software Look Like?
- 00:52:51 The Community Matters
- 00:53:58 The Photoshop Interface Built Adobe
- 00:55:06 Piracy Helped Build The Monopoly
- 00:56:00 No Free Version = No One Uses It... Or Cares.
- 00:58:57 Adobe In Trouble?
- 01:02:40 Has Adobe Forgotten How To Make And Promote Software?
- 01:03:32 The Street Price Of Creative Cloud
- 01:05:58 Adobe Actually Has A Great Deal...
- 01:09:10 The Traps Large Companies Fall Into
- 01:10:58 Business Models And Functionality Are Linked!
- 01:14:03 Photoshop IS Unique
- 01:17:34 The Real Issue? (AI)
- 01:19:25 The Hype Train
- 01:22:11 If AGI and Superintelligence Are Coming... Why Is Adobe Putting AI In Photoshop
- 01:24:51 The Double Speak Of Generative Imagery and LLMs
- 01:25:59 The Real Reason I Want OFF The Adobe Train Now
- 01:29:17 Takeaways!
- 01:30:14 The Analytical Takeaway
- 01:35:15 Marker 3
- 01:35:26 The practical Takeaway
- 01:37:27 The Philosophical Takeaway
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