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I've written before about how Adobe's turning into Microsoft -- and not in any good ways. Their products are becoming bloated, complicated, expensive, and Adobe is treating Mac users as second class citizens, taking forever to release Intel binaries for Intel Macintoshes. They're even following Microsoft's dubious multi-Vista strategy and releasing something like a dozen different versions of their Creative Suite product!

Adobe's got a de-facto monopoly with its graphic design software -- Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat -- and its acquisition of its main competitor on the web side, Macromedia, means it adds Dreamweaver and Flash to its arsenal (and kills off FreeHand, my personal favorite drawing program). Upgrading to the latest versions of Adobe's products is practically mandatory for designers, and I, sadly, fall into that category, and I feel Adobe's using their monopoly power to gouge and abuse me.

Here's the irony: the more money I put into Adobe's coffers, the worse they treat me!