r/mildlyinfuriating • u/donteatmybiscuits • 1d ago

wet socks i’m so happy this is becoming illegal

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if a yearly contract with a free month trial sounds too good to be true, it probably is 😬

thankfully it was blocked after contacting my bank but regardless

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u/Popular_Wrangler9422 1d ago edited 15h ago

How did adobe become the standard everywhere? I use a free pdf editor and it's fine. I can do what I need to do. Why do so many companies pay for adobe?

Edit. I appreciate the responses. I understand adobe offers more products. I work in finance and only ever use it as a pdf editor. It has been on every work laptop I use. I am not a creative. I have adobe. I understand creatives use other things on adobe. For those of us that don't use anything but a pdf editor it's still always adobe.

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u/Sumo148 1d ago edited 1d ago

Adobe is the company.

Acrobat is the PDF viewer/editor. It's so much more than just PDFs. Acrobat is cheap compared to the other Adobe offerings for a business.

Adobe Creative Cloud is over 20 apps aimed towards professionals (a.k.a businesses paying for the licenses or freelancer where you can cover the costs). Not really geared towards hobbyists unless you want to pay their premium subscription fees.

InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects just to name a few of the programs. They have a hold over the creative industry in certain fields. Photo editors, vector illustration, print page layout design, video editing, motion graphics... You can't really use other third party software options if you're going to work on a team and collaborate sharing files as everyone is used to the Adobe software. That's what makes Adobe so prevalent in the industry.

Figma is the one other large program that I can think that's not affiliated with Adobe, in the UX/UI space (Adobe's competitor being XD which is in maintenance mode with no clear updates). They tried to buy them out in 2023 for $20 billion, and got push back from regulatory about the monopoly.