This is just another example of why the software industry is largely broken, from a customer perspective.
They don't give a sh*t about users — they no longer have to. They are a monopoly. Look at what Adobe did to Macromedia and Freehand. You have competition? Buy them up and shut them down. Who has the option NOT to use Microsoft Word these days? And they know it. So the days of the big software companies giving a toss about what users think are over. They can tinker and dabble and mess around with 'neat' UI designs all they want. These companies now exist to entertain their overpaid coders. (and they are 'coders', not 'designers'. No trained designer would have come up with the abortion that is the current Acrobat interface).
This is just another example of why the software industry is largely broken, from a customer perspective.
They don't give a sh*t about users — they no longer have to. They are a monopoly. Look at what Adobe did to Macromedia and Freehand. You have competition? Buy them up and shut them down. Who has the option NOT to use Microsoft Word these days? And they know it. So the days of the big software companies giving a toss about what users think are over. They can tinker and dabble and mess around with 'neat' UI designs all they want. These companies now exist to entertain their overpaid coders. (and they are 'coders', not 'designers'. No trained designer would have come up with the abortion that is the current Acrobat interface).