We Reached the Moon with 64 KB. Why Does a PDF Need 500 MB RAM?
I honestly do not even know where to begin. Adobe Acrobat Reader used to be a great tool. Now it takes ages just to open, it is incredibly sluggish, and it consumes around 500 MB of RAM simply to display a train ticket. This comes at a time when companies everywhere are trying to reduce memory usage. The application is bloated with hundreds of features that only work with a subscription, and I have no idea why they are even being shown in the first place. On top of that, there are AI features that I definitely do not want to see enabled or advertised by default.
Adobe seems to have completely lost its focus on customer needs and is simply adding more and more features without listening to users. It is a classic problem of many large companies today. Years ago, people reached the Moon with just 64 KB of memory, yet today 500 MB apparently is not even enough to open a document efficiently.
My urgent recommendation is to go back to the drawing board and develop a PDF viewer that people actually want to use again. For opening a simple PDF document, I consider anything above 50 MB of RAM usage excessive, even by today's standards. A document should open and close within one or two seconds, not make users wait while unnecessary features and background services load.
Michael Gr.
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