Return-Path: Received: from mail-vx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.220.169] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4619239 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:33:03 +0100 Received: by vcbf13 with SMTP id f13so123051vcb.28 for ; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:39:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=rUT0MRzTUniy1bRZsFT+062D6yuAXizxDLeo8AbPNaY=; b=lR2AMFbuV1BZbTY+TP/6QuyJb9OzdJ7OkNX1dpxSy4MhE/38f3vN1z8Ey+8TS4jkc3 gBKOYXu2jzmevbeBd+vjANV8J10ymEs8/AoExwGUE7i1vsM7mhq9ImmwOz3CEELMH2zJ Aj9GZ6THrw87Q3GCEtmaJzV7wE645ttswbX3o= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.173.79 with SMTP id bi15mr11395696vdc.31.1328675944971; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:39:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.52.94.132 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 20:39:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 23:39:04 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [AE] F*k You Adobe From: joe cafe To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec51b9ce3b8bc6204b86c79c0 --bcaec51b9ce3b8bc6204b86c79c0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 wrote: > Wow, really?> apologies for the delayed response. You are assuming that everyone who wants to watch a Flash movie is at the edge of motion graphics, with cash to burn on perpetual hardware investment. In fact, there are students, and yes, unemployed people. (we are in a depressed economy, you know) Their ppcs work just fine for them, and Adobe is prodding them to shell out thousands of dollars every few years, or beat it. That is rather heartless. Then there are those of us who are moving on to other careers, that don't pay so well, but are more satisfying. We continue to do a bit of work, but it simply would not make sense to buy the newest and greatest when what we have is in fine working order. Maybe Adobe doesn't mean to be evil, but they could at least wait until the economy is healthy before pulling what could only be called, in this economy, a bullying tactic. > Apple did an architecture shift for better performance, managed a > "universal" operating environment for 5 or 6 years, finally decides it's > time to move on, and developers do the same...and this makes them evil? > > Sheesh. > > Carey > > On Feb 4, 2012, at 11:49 AM, joe cafe wrote: > > > How evil can you get. > > It isn't enough that Adobe updates its software so that it can't be used > on PPCs. > > Now, you can't view a new Flash movie. Adobe is not making Flash > updates for PPCs. > > > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to > --bcaec51b9ce3b8bc6204b86c79c0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Carey Dissmore=A0<carey@imugonline.com>=A0wrote:
Wow, really?>

apologies for the delayed= response. =A0You are assuming that everyone who wants to watch a Flash mov= ie is at the edge of motion graphics, with cash to burn on perpetual hardwa= re investment.
In fact, there are students, and yes, unemployed people. (we are in a depre= ssed economy, you know) =A0Their ppcs work just fine for them, and Adobe is= prodding them to shell out thousands of dollars every few years, or beat i= t.
That is rather heartless.
Then there are those of us who are= moving on to other careers, that don't pay so well, but are =A0more sa= tisfying. =A0We continue to do a bit of work, but it simply would not make = sense to buy the newest and greatest when what we have is in fine working o= rder.
Maybe Adobe doesn't mean to be evil, but they could at least wait = until the economy is healthy before pulling what could only be called, in t= his economy, a bullying tactic.


Apple did an architecture shift for better performance, managed a "uni= versal" operating environment for 5 or 6 years, finally decides it'= ;s time to move on, and developers do the same...and this makes them evil?<= br>
Sheesh.

Carey

On Feb 4, 2012, at 11:49 AM, joe cafe wrote:

> How evil can you get.
> It isn't enough that Adobe updates its software so that it can'= ;t be used on PPCs.
> Now, you can't view a new Flash movie. =A0Adobe is not making Flas= h updates for PPCs.
>


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