Apparently for the first time, Adobe will host its Max conference outside California this year. In Florida. (This according to Business Insider.)
Some 500 Adobe employees signed a petition pleading with the company not to gift such a financially significant piece of business to a state where the government is running roughshod over the values Adobe claims to uphold.
An Adobe exec named Amy White is quoted as acknowledging that Florida is "complicated".
No. It's not "complicated". You either stand with bigotry or you stand with your stated values.
I used to admire Adobe and its products. Over the last few years, Adobe has disappointed me with sloppy product development, disappointing customer service, and a - disappointing - slide into the amoral behavior we all associate with big corporations with effective monopolies.
Yes, Adobe does some good things. But the disappointments add up.
Why am I posting this here? I invested over an hour without success trying to simply find a way to express to Adobe that my $600 a year vote was on the side of the 500 employee petitioners. Should be simple, right? Just send an email to "feedback" or "info@". Nope. No phone. No email. No chat. No feedback on the "values" page on the website. No appropriate forum. I eventually was given a bug report form. It's very clear that Adobe works hard to isolate itself from its customers. (Which, now that I think about it, goes a long way toward explaining why stupid bugs persist for so long and new versions always break features that have worked for decades.)
Another disappointment.
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