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Software company Adobe received a less than hostile reception from the community after debuting on fast -growing X Alternative Bluesky.
Users who apparently stood in line to roast the Photoshop and After Effects Maker after it had made an introductory message on the platform earlier this week, in which artists, designers and storytellers were asked: “What is your creativity feeding at the moment?”
“You continue to increase your prices for a product that is getting worse,” said a user in response to the message. “You are no longer a monopoly, you have to adjust.”
“I assume you charge us every month to read your messages,” wrote another user.
Adobe immediately removed the message, but not before Adobe critics brought their best pop culture references to Bully the software company.
The @adobe.com and @photoshop.adobe.com bluesky accounts currently have no messages.
The company has irritated its users several times in the past year. In June 2024, Adobe changed the formulation on his FAQ to give it the right to “view” and “view” and “view” and “Analyze” with AI tools. Users suspected that their creative output could be used to train the generative AI models of Adobe, an accusation that the company refused.
The company then changed the formulation of its legal small print and explained the move as a way to combat the production of sexual abuse of children, but not before users gathered to attack the company online.
Adobe has also drawn a lot of criticism of the subscription policy, which has shifted to a cloud -based monthly payment approach in recent years.
Regulators take note. Last year, the Ministry of Justice had to fail to fail that Adobe accused of “to make consumers adequately known that by registering for the” annual, paid monthly “subscription plan, they agree with an annual obligation and a substantial early termination costs that hundreds of dollars can amount to”. The DOJ claimed that the company “catching consumers in subscriptions that they no longer want.”
Nevertheless, Adobe retains a sleek grip on some industries. Adobe has an estimated 80% market share of the creative software industry, with 33 million paying subscribers on his creative cloud suite of products in mid-2024.
