How dare they make us pay for the software we used to make money all day, and also for free for the last fifteen years. Then Creative Cloud subscriptions happened, and suddenly, instead of a trusted partner in creativity, Adobe was a sworn enemy. Instead, a friend of a friend would track down a cracked version of the latest Photoshop or Illustrator and share it around on a burner CD, and we would all silently give thanks to our patron saint for spending time and money on the R&D for software we used illegally, for free, for as long as it would run, in complete violation of an end-user license agreement no one had ever read. Cloud- and subscription-based software were still far in the future. Things must surely have been easier for them back in the early 2000s. It must be a thankless job, trying to manage your public image by staying roughly on the good side of fifteen million creative egos. Those charming custom app icons you remember from Adobe’s earlier days are now an artifact of creative history.
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