I wanted to uninstall an old version of Photoshop to free up some badly needed space. By then, Photoshop has been updated again and I'm back to the beginning. But I discover that Creative Cloud Desktop has just been updated, so I wait a while before risking downloading it. I wait a while, then launch Creative Cloud Desktop to update Photoshop.

So say a new version of Photoshop is released. That's especially true for Creative Cloud Desktop, which in the past had a bug that randomly deleted files. When a new update is released, I selfishly wait a while to let others do the beta testing. It puts updating my software on Adobe's schedule, not mine. Almost every time I launch Creative Cloud Desktop, it tells me an update is available, and all updates seem to be mandatory, so that's another 460 MB or so per computer. This might be foregivable if the Mac had no good package installer, but Apple provides a quite decent package utility.īut it's worse. Adobe Application Manager, Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Creative Cloud Experience, and Adobe Sync (all in /Applications/Utilities) together take up 448 MB. Spyware? On launch, it connects to about 40 hosts, including analytics company New Relic.īloatware? Installing it downloads about 460 MB per computer. This is the most evil software I've ever seen that is not, strictly speaking, malware.

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