{"id":781,"date":"2008-12-04T03:07:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T08:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2009-08-15T20:03:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T01:03:33","slug":"adobe-chopping-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/04\/adobe-chopping-heads\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Chopping Heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current state of affairs at Adobe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"600 to Go\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/154922\/.html?tk=rss_news\">Adobe Cuts 600 Jobs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"No Mo Expo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2008\/12\/03\/adobe-trimming-expo-budget-possibly-jobs\/\">Adobe Abandons Mac Expo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Adobe Uh Oh\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.com\/aboutadobe\/pressroom\/pressreleases\/200812\/120308PrelimQ4FiscalResults.html\">Adobe Reports Poor 4th Quarter Earnings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Downey Goes Down\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mdowney\/status\/1036971152\">Mike Downey No Longer with Adobe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The most relevant quote from Adobe&#8217;s financial report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Company cited weaker-than-expected demand for its new Creative Suite 4 family of products that began shipping in Q4 in North America and Europe as the main cause for the shortfall in fourth quarter revenue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So why do you think CS4 isn&#8217;t selling?  Is it the <a title=\"CS3 Undo Sucks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/cs3-undo-button-wastes\/\">lack of a decent Undo Button<\/a>? \ud83d\ude09  Is it the pricing structure?  Is it because they&#8217;ve lost touch with their users?<!--more-->  Leave a comment and tell me your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weaker-than-expected demand for Adobe&#8217;s new Creative Suite, Adobe fires 600 employees, Adobe abandons the Mac Expo and Mike Downey leaves Adobe .  Is it the end of times for Adobe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash","tag-adobe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}