Acquisition Heralds the Slowest App Ever

April 18th, 2005

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Acquisition Heralds the Slowest App Ever

As you may have heard (I heard on Slashdot), Adobe bought Macromedia for a cool $4.3 billion:

The combination of Adobe and Macromedia strengthens our mission of helping people and organizations communicate better. Through the combination of our powerful development, authoring and collaboration tools � and the complementary functionality of PDF and Flash � we have the opportunity to drive an industry-defining technology platform that delivers compelling, rich content and applications across a wide range of devices and operating systems.

I’ve got a pretty decent machine, but I find Adobe Reader 7.0 and Dreamweaver MX tremendously sluggish. I click their icons, and it’s like starting Summer Games on a Commodore 64–I’ve got time to go make a sandwich.

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Terry
April 18th, 2005
11:38 am

I’ve got a brand new laptop yet MX 2004 can crash it pretty quickly. I’ve learned to save after almost every step now. I hope the next generation of products doesn’t have as many issues, but I’m not holding my breath.

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Jeff
April 18th, 2005
11:50 am

I STILL use Dreamweaver 4 - loads nice and fast, but someday I may have to make the move to MX.

As far as Adobe - my pet peeve is when you click a link on a website for ‘more info’ or whatever, and hear the hard drive churn as Acrobat begins to load. Sites that don’t warn you that the link you are clicking will launch Acrobat Reader are just annoying. Sometimes I would rather keep those 10-15 seconds of my life than read whatever the document contains.

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