Adobe layoffs strike home, 680 to lose jobs

Adobe sickens me right now. They are laying off their workforce not because they're hitting financial trouble, but because they are outsourcing their work to under-payed workers in primarily China and India... in what may possibly be considered slave-labor conditions.

Shame on you Adobe! If they don't knock this crap off, then the modern day abolition movement will probably bring them to their knees.

I got laid off just today, woohoo. I hope now Shantanu Narayen can afford to pay his bills. And his mortgage too. After a year of 10-hrs workdays this is the best reward one can ask for.

I'm hoping CS5's native rewrite for the Mac will finally make the software as stable as its Windows counterpart.

It sucks to have to save your money for a year in order to buy buggy software that crashes for no apparent reason.

I feel bad for the employess losing their jobs, but it's been a long time coming. How many years have we been overpaying for under developed software, with little or no attention paid after initial release (10.0.1 was the last CS3 release, despite dozens of remaining problems). I'd estimate only 10% of users actually paid for the product due to its exorbitant pricing and diminishing utility. I'm not saying stealing is ok, but I understand.

They got way too comfortable at the top, and now they're starting to feel the pressure. Instead of responding with a new strategy, they fire people. Typical. Once Pixelmator or the next Aperture fills the gaps where photoshop is still needed, I'm ditching Adobe for good, unless they show me they can get off their high horse. Hell, I can almost replace InDesign with Pages at this point.

They must be feeling the heat of HTML 5 video functions.

I guess this means that Flash for OS X won't be fixed anytime soon.

@ alansky
@Joey

Have you taken a look at Studio Artist? It is deeper than photoshop and painter combined and less expensive. It has been since it's inception, a Mac only program. This year the developer is opening it up to that other OS. The newest version is 4.0 available in beta.

CS4, and CS3 before it, are both bug ridden dogs on my Mac. I've tweaked, reinstalled and done just about whatever I can but, nothing helps. I get beachballs, unexpected quits on close, and the performance on my Mac Pro w/ 12gb of ram is just unreasonably bad.

To think I spent so much money on this suite is embarrassing. However to know for a fact that it runs just fine in Windows 7 on the same system is downright offensive. Some days I dual boot and do my work using the trials just for some stability.

All that said, I can't wish for their demise because there's just no adequate replacements for this stuff - especially now that Macromedia is dead. Adobe is the only game in town.

As long as those developers are responsible for the atrocities that are 1) the CS suite installers, 2) Flash on the Mac, and 3) the hideous non-native interfaces plaguing Photoshop, Elements, etc, then I have no problem with this.

Adobe has managed to go from an industry darling to completely reviled in a decade. Nice going, guys!

Wow. I didn't even know they HAD 680 Mac developers.