Another expensive upgrade. If my memory serves me correctly CS3 came out only about a year and a half ago. And I know for a fact that the changes between CS2 and CS3 weren’t hugely significant suite-wide. And from my impression so far of the marketing and advertised features for CS4, I can’t see this ‘upgrade’ being much different than the last one.

There are some cool new features for sure but nothing that I think is worth paying the high adobe price for at this point, especially after it’s first launched. From what I understand Adobe alternates upgrades for Flash between developers and designers. Flash in CS3 was upgraded for developers - this one, for designers. So, of course, it would make sense that designers would be stoked for the cool new release of the Flash in CS4. However in my browsing of the new features I didn’t find much in the rest of the suite that really stood out at me (not for these prices anyway).

A friend of mine who is a software developer keeps telling me Adobe won’t last. At this rate - I’m starting to believe him, despite the industry standard.

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