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Adobe's stock has declined 24.7% over five years despite revenue growth from $16B to $22B, driven by their 2013 shift to subscription pricing. The company faces criticism for outdated software UI, poor AI integration, confusing pricing plans, aggressive cancellation fees, and anti-competitive practices like attempting to acquire Figma for $20B. After regulators blocked the deal, Adobe paid Figma a $1B termination fee, giving their competitor resources to innovate. Browser-based tools like Figma are gaining traction, suggesting creative software may shift away from desktop applications toward web platforms with technologies like WebGPU.

The Downfall Of Adobe

Aside from the usual FOSS (GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, etc.) options often mentioned, shout out for mentioning software like Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher, DaVinci Resolve Studio and Blackmagic Fusion Studio, with most offering one-time purchase models. Documentation is excellent, and both personally and at scale in an organization, the small time spent in training can greatly benefit the bottom line.

Adobe products have long been a symbol of riches. At the same time, for poor students, they were something shared ways to crack. Now that affordable alternatives exist, there’s no need to take risks. And as they grow up, they gradually move away from Adobe. Perhaps we are now seeing the consequences of that.

Adobe is the only big company I know that limits invoice downloading to the account owner. Even when you create accounting accounts, they can’t download invoices! Invoice via email? Does not work. Changing a plan from 1 month to 12 months billing? Only if you backup all your data and configuration and restore it afterwards, because this can only be done by deleting your account!
This company is so far away from real world business needs. It’s just insane.

I saw this coming back when they stopped selling perpetual licenses, and then it was just more nails in the coffin after that. From changing their privacy policy to saying it can train their AI on your work, to buying out competition. They’ve been swirling the toilet bowl for a while and are only kept afloat by good profits reports that only exist because they have such a large established market share for a looooong time and people are too lazy to learn new tools even if it means they get screwed.

I am biased - the abo model is pushing growth as you can see. Which makes sure that Adobe won’t get broke - surprise… Folks think they pay “more” over time in the end - but they will be given the newest features steadily.
The argument that “adobe is too expensive” is bullshit imao, as a business owner you deduct stuff from taxes and report expenses. Of course you have to pay for tools - like handyman having to for their tools as well. And yes they pay a lot more than a designer for 50€/month for adobe suite, guess what If you ask a handyman if he could have a flatrate for infinite number of tools - guess what he’d say?
50 Bucks a month for a fully featured toolset is still cheap folks - in case you don’t need the full set of what adobe provides you’re free to choose the freeware or other stuff and stop complaining…especially the ones taking 2k for a shitty logo…
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