WHY DOES ADOBE NEED SO MANY UPDATES?!!!!!

Yeah ,the updates are insane it is why i am here . But i installed pinnacle studios and it came with a liscenced adobe reader and it has options and you can turn off the updates . So i tried a " trial " version of adobe cs5 master suite and it too offers full options , including updates . So they want you to spend money to stop the annoyance , mental extortion . IT IS NOT ACCIDENTAL OR NEEDFULL . Crummy business model , reminds me of at*t tactics.

       Bleah

Remember AOL used to "update" when you logged off,lol . spying on you . I highly suspect they are doing the same, some sort of data mining to be sure , yeah class action sounds good ,,, where do i sign up .

Is it so hard to update your software? Updates improve your abilities to work with program, aren't they?

well at least they are trying to keep thier product up to date and running smoothly!

If anyone's interested, I just got hold of a Pentium (166mHz) with Windows 95 on it, a whopping 2Gb hard drive, CD (No DVD or burning) Drive, 64Mb of PC100 SDRAM and it has Adobe Acrobat Reader 2.

Since it has a 1400 BAUD rate modem, and I have no land line phone it's impossible to update it.

$100 with13" CRT monitor.

Any Takers?

You'll never have a problem with updates... ever again.

I'm sorry but I've been an Adobe reader fan for a number of years but the signs are now very bad. It seems they are calling their users liers we don't say it happens every week because we imagine it. I've been in the IT business for 25 years and this is a real problem not imaginary.

This issue alone has been going on for a year or so which means Adobe either don't take it seriously of just don't care. I think it's the latter as I've had problems with PDA versions not even being acknowledge as existing on their own site. I had to make rude remarks on the forum where people were complaining and being ignored. Only then did I get sent a link. I had by then decided not to use PDF as a format. After all if the creators of the format won't support it it must be a dead format.

I plan to disable the updater and avoid using reader as soon as I can.

I have a laptop running Windows 7 that's been complaining about an out of date flash player for a year. The update completes succcessfully just like Reader and then it says it needs updating. I guess they only care for MAC users.

Shame but I guess like Microsoft they have little time left before they become a pointless company and perhaps this is their first acknowledgement of their demise.

RIP the PDF format.

I totally agree with your complain about the update everyday ..It always takes a couple of time to have updated ...would it be ok to make the process more simply ?

STOP THE ANNOYING UDATES!

IT GOT UPDATED JUST LAST WEEK!

HERE'S A THOUGHT ABOUT NOT HAVING THOSE SECURITY HOLES IN IT:

DON'T SOME SOMETHING OUT THE DOOR EVERY 2 WEEKS AND MAYBE YOU CAN TEST IT FIRST TO AVOID THE PROBLEMS!

THE SECURITY ISSUE IS A SCAM

ADOBE IS USING THE UPDATE FUNCTION AS AN ADVERTISING FUNCTION

ADOBE MARKETERS JUST CAN'T RESIST BUGGING CUSTOMERS ABOUT THEMSELVES

WHEN 99% OF PEOPLE JUST NEED SOMETHING TO READ SIMPLE PDF FILES

WE DON'T NEED ALL THESE UPDATES!!!!

It is so frustrating to have to wait for updates.  I've had two updates this week.  Why?  It makes me very uneasy to be using a program which needs updating all the time. Why can't Adobe get it right the first time?  And what is the update going to do for me anyway?  It just slows my computer down, then it wants to re-start when I am using the computer for other things.  Adobe!  I wish you'd get your act together, there are other options.

I guess I should be clear in stating that when Adobe does an update, I do not know if it is for reader or for flash.  I just know that they are frequent, they take a long time, they make me reboot, they make me think that adobe is of the opinion that my pc exists to carry their software which they update and change as they see fit. When using their software I have never felt that they really had me in mind as an end user yet I process documents with their software all day long since it is a common file type that I can send to customers whether it is a cad drawing or a powerpoint presentation.  The deal is that from the last 25 years of working with software there is this critical point where the software becomes so tedious and self serving that a simpler solution pops up that might not have EVERY bell or whistle available but is preferable to the mainstream choice. Think...Netscape, think Lotus 1,2,3- I believe even AOL's demise is from that angle.  MS Word aint everything but they seem to be in touch with making their software easy to use, and constantly improving the product in a way that is noticeable and saves man hours when all is said and done.  For me PDF files just get harder and harder to manipulate and use.

my suspicion is it's a marketing ploy...anything that keeps "Adobe" on the front page of your thoughts is good advertising...I mean, NO ONE could have such horrible software that it needs daily mass updates - could they?

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