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There is no financial motive for software to work well. The people who sign the check for it almost never have to use it.
If they do a bad enough job they'll create a niche for a competitor to fill.
That's a dream. The googles and such just buy them out and shut them down. There is always a bigger fish that spends more money preserving the status quo than making a product.
True - that's a big reason I like open source software. Doesn't help with search though.
I would love to see exactly how many people dropped Adobe after the latest drama, I would bet it would look exactly like the Netflix micro dip after shutting down password sharing.
No one that works in the industry is going to drop Adobe, because there's no other functional alternative that offers an even remotely similar feature set. A lot of the files I get from clients are .ai (Illustrator) or .indd (InDesign) files, and I have to use the appropriate programs to open them, and the most up-to-date versions of those programs, or else I end up missing parts of their files.
Users that are 100%, fully independent don't have to worry about any of that. But those people are rare.
I have a laptop where half the keyboard doesnβt work and the mouse gave out, but my full paid Acrobat works, so I keep it.
That's why a lot of us are here after all.