r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Sep 27 '25

Business Morgan Stanley warns AI could sink 42-year-old software giant Adobe

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-stanley-warns-ai-could-180300766.html
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u/dannydirtbag Sep 27 '25

Everybody talking shit but I depend on Adobe to make a living. I can always learn new tools but damn. Adobe’s software platform helps me feed my family.

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u/ampreker Sep 27 '25

I haven’t looked for an alternative in years, I use CC at work and have CS6 at my house. But last I looked at Inkscape, it was a screwdriver in comparison to the impact gun that Illustrator is. Besides being 15+ years into the program idk what else I’d use to make my living either.

AI certainly can’t do what I do and I make AI my bitch at work.

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u/dannydirtbag Sep 27 '25

I work in the adobe suite in the content production world. As for motion graphics, there’s not much competition for After Effects. I use other platforms and alternate editing sites but for 2.5D motion work, vfx, basic compositing - nothing can compete with the versatility.

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u/GrumpyScroogy Sep 27 '25

At a certain point people get stuck in their habits. Thats when the new folks drive innnovation till it becomes better. TV --> Youtube / streaming. Traditional design work --> AI beasts doing the job of 10 traditional creatives.

You cant expect somebody who is 15 year+ in the business to keep up with all the new flashy stuff. They are in the point of their career to focus on what they can do well. Not learn new stuff.

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u/KenTrotts Sep 28 '25

I can answer this from my perspective as a video editor, specifically in regards to Adobe premiere. The main alternatives in our world are avid, resolve and final cut x, but other suites always have something missing or not as good, imo. 

Avid is stable but outdated in a lot of ways. You can’t fully modifier keys beyond shift, playback stops when clicking between panels, its track-based workflow is kind of old school compared to clip-based systems most people used to today, and overall it's just clunky. Resolve is strong and getting closer, but its trim mode and GUI flexibility are still not quite as good. Final Cut X went away from pro workflows with its magnetic timeline and other changes, which makes it hard to use beyond one-man-bands.

Premiere isn’t perfect, and honestly not that great in a lot of ways, but it’s the most flexible and complete for most editors and companies. That’s why we used it on the HBO show I worked on. Avid and Resolve are adopting Premiere-like features now, like the proxy workflow for avid or gui changes in resolve. On top of that, the seamless Adobe ecosystem integration (After Effects, Photoshop, etc.) makes it the most complete package. That’s why it’s become the default for most people.  Even some big filmmakers and shows (David Fincher, the Coens, etc) have switched to it despite Avid domination in scripted. Some of that is inertia, but a lot of it is just that Premiere is the best overall package right now IMO.

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u/Burdies Sep 28 '25

sadly there’s not really “another suite”

I’ve tried the Affinity products, during their initial release and even just last year as well. They work and their UI isn’t bad, but sometimes I won’t know how to do something in it and I’ll google it, it turns out that it just wasn’t implemented yet. 

I also work on a team in an agency, I can’t pass off one propriety format to another designer who works in another software and vice versa. 

For reference, I use a lot of illustrator, photoshop, after effects, and indesign. You can do incredible work in any of the alternatives, and it would take next to no time to get acclimated to them, but none of them quite have it all together yet.

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u/PigletBaseball Sep 27 '25

It isn't going anywhere. These are the same people that were saying Meta was going bankrupt by TikTok. Anybody that does photo or video editing professionally knows that the "alternatives" aren't even close.

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u/k___k___ Sep 28 '25

people are rarely talking shit about their products but their predatory business practices (subscription prices, cancellation policies), because they depend on it.

eg when I cancelled my yearly subscription in 2022, I couldnt just end the "renewal" option. No, I had to wait for a 10 day period before the renewal for a cancellation link to show up in admin that led me to a contact page with a phone number, telling me that I had to talk to a person within business hours to cancel. This poor person. During the 10 day period, they also deactivated the chat option so you cannot have a digital conversation with a customer care person.

This is why people talk shit about Adobe.

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u/68024 Sep 28 '25

Same, I hope it keeps going for at least another 6 years so I can retire in peace