First Apple starts moving away from Pro users with the less-than-pro MacBook Pros with glossy screens, now Adobe is scaling back it’s presence at MacWorld?

When you can’t stand the heat, you get out of the kitchen.

Perhaps they don’t want us CS4 users commenting on the interface for the apps.

Well they will be at the seminars, but maybe they don’t see the cost benefit of having an exhibit.

I guess Adobe’s thinking that most of the MW attendees that would be potential customers are already plenty aware of the CS4 stuff. “Preaching to the Choir”, so to speak.

The training sessions likely contain a more focused demographic, so it’s probably money well spent.

Although I consider some Adobe products more essential to my work than anything Apple makes, the one time I went to MW, I never set foot in the Adobe booth. There wasn’t anything there I didn’t already know about.

Not a comment on Adobe’s no-show per-se; but, I have not upgraded to CS4 because it seems to me that CS4 does not offer enough compelling new features. The only things that really interest me with InDesign is the new smart alignment guides, similar to those in Apple’s Pages and iWeb…oh! and those in Adobe’s Illustrator. Photoshop offers smart scaling that seems pretty nice. Doesn’t look like there is much else; yet, the upgrade costs $600. Pretty steep. Has anyone seen the promo piece Adobe made with the lady who talks about moving from one app to the other seamlessly? It is full of generalities and few specifics. Sounds like a politician talking. So, I think Adobe has some real work to do…

“Not a comment on Adobe’s no-show per-se; but, I have not upgraded to CS4 because it seems to me that CS4 does not offer enough compelling new features.”

For me it is a long story about a quick decision. A few weeks ago I upgraded to CS4 from CS2. I skipped CS3 because I didn’t see the value in it and CS2 was working for me with 2 exceptions; CS2 versions of InDesign and Distiller crashed under Leopard so I switched to Pages for layout and distilled the files on my iBook. I knew the time was coming when I would need to upgrade, but I was holding on as long as I could Then my iMac starting acting up, the SMU I think, shutting itself down at odd moments so I took the plunge and bought a new iMac and CS4.

Anyway, in my opinion CS4 is probably a good upgrade from CS2 and CS1, quirks not withstanding. I wish Adobe would design their interfaces for the Mac and port it to WIndows instead of the other way around.