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Spoilers Lower Decks General Discussion Thread

Adobe really needs to pull their heads out their ass on some things. I used to use ImageReady religiously back in the day. It was a one-stop-shop designed to build custom animated gif's and sliced clickable image maps, complete with HTML and JavaScript code generation for websites and they killed it. I could never find comparable functionality in PhotoShop or any other tool. That, and they spearheaded the whole "annual subscription" business model back around the same time, charging ridiculously exorbitant prices for the privilege to basically "rent" their software for a year, no longer allowing their users to fully own it and upgrade to a newer version when they feel they need to. I cannot stand what they've become and I'm honestly surprised that they reversed their track on this.

Honestly, I agree, anyone who uses Animate should take this opportunity to treat this as an end-of-life extension and get all their shit exported to a platform-agnostic format as quickly as possible before it goes away for good. I don't trust those bastards at all anymore.
 
Exactly. Over time, they basically cornered the market. If anyone else did come out with something comparable, they might wind up getting all legal-eagle on them. Sounds like a monopoly to me, but that's a bit above my pay-grade. :)
 
Exactly. Over time, they basically cornered the market. If anyone else did come out with something comparable, they might wind up getting all legal-eagle on them. Sounds like a monopoly to me, but that's a bit above my pay-grade. :)
As long as it doesn't directly copy proprietary information like engine or GUI there's no basis for a lawsuit. More likely they'd buy it out and shift them over to an existing Adobe product.
They're not as bad as Google but yeah. If any software devs have a killer Animation program ready to drop, now would be the perfect time.
 
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