World rejoices as Photoshop Express for iPad is fixed

"Have at it, and unlike the iPhone 4 antenna, you can hold your iPad anyway you want.'

Only an asshole would take another kick at a horse that dead.

So it was totally cool for a company Adobe's size to put out such a crappy app and we're not allowed to follow up when they fix it? Somehow you tied together these events and wound up accusing Mel of... what, exactly? Glenn Beck would be proud of your comment.

so it's not Adobe's fault at all for such a poorly coded app. got it.

I've enjoyed reading all the comments on my post, both good and bad.

The reality is, Adobe, so critical of Apple of late, released a buggy app. It only worked if you 'held it a certain way.'

It is supremely ironic, after Steve Jobs ludicrously told people their iPhone would work fine if they held it in the 'right' way.

I love my iPhone 4. I get tired of people asking me about the antenna, but you know what? It was a crappy antenna design. I use mine in a case and it works fine, but the design decision is retrospect seems a bad one, and I fully expect future iPhones to be modified. The antenna blunder cost Apple millions in bad publicity. Was it all overblown? I think so, but I can't get over the delicious irony of Adobe releasing an app that didn't work in landscape mode, or Apple releasing a phone that couldn't be held in a natural way, without having to buy a case.

TUAW is a news and opinion site. That's what we do. I give my opinions on a regular basis. We allow you to do the same in the comments.

We like it that way.

Mel
TUAW

Not to beat a dead horse (but this is how strongly i fee). Mel, know your target audience here...do some research. How are you still hung up on this. I'm wondering the hiring practices of TUAW.

Adobe has gone out of their way to use PR instead of technical acumen, offshoring instead of real innovation. In short, Adobe has been running their collective mouths for years with little to back it up. Just like the 'old Microsoft'.. even the softies have abandoned that tack.

'Ubiquity' doesn't get you squat these days. Just ask every softy except Ballmer.

Maybe Adobe's recent behavior is suggestive that they're looking to Redmond to buy them out. It's obvious that whatever geek power they had over there is LONG GONE. Uncle Steve just refusing Flash outright on the iOS just made this painfully obvious.

Knowing all this, my questions are:

WHY shouldn't Mel have a 'Gawker moment' when they mess up? Gawker caps on Apple all the time. And this is the unofficial APPLE web log, right?

And more importantly, Apple vets Apps before they hit the AppStore. Why did this one just SLIDE THROUGH? So that (once again) Adobe can be shown to be the fools they are? Bueller? Bueller?

Photoshop Express is just too limited. I bought Filterstorm last night based on recommendations, and it's very good.

I can't believe people are getting paid at tuaw to post crap like this. Do any of the writers read what they just typed or do they just bang on the keyboard and click send.

And why are the pictures for posts really badly done or low quality, urgh they always look horrible.

Not your best effort Mel. Two paragraphs rehashing your own personal overblown reaction to the app (while universal problems), then a brief statement reporting the update, then the extraneous antenna chestnut. Give it a reread yourself... sound a little juvenile?

"This app is closed-captionned for the rotationally impaired."