Adware: “VVersion Cue is (allegedly) ‘Good For You.”

Adobe Creative Suites 2 (CS2) has a feature called ‘Version Cue,’ which is allegedly an aid in keeping track of various versions of a project.

They admit that this was a very ‘underused’ feature of their wonderful, world-class package: CS and CS2.

Thus, now, when reading their Online Help, demo literature that comes with the programs, or approved third-party manuals, it is repetitively emphasized how: ‘Version Cue is good for you.’

Additionally Adobe believes that buying stock photos through them is ‘good for you.’

On the very toolbar in the fabulous programs that make up these Creative suites, not only are their tools for selecting objects, moving objects, selecting brush styles, cropping photos, etc., but now a link — a link twice the size of the real tools — a link that leads you to an Adobe site where the user is informed:
1. Version Cue is good for you.
2. Adobe stock photos are on sale here.

Adobe stock photos are, BTW, advertised as being ‘royality-free.’
Of course it turns out that if you want to use these royality-free photos you have to pay some cash.

You see, it works like this…..

This is illustrative of how the suits, the bean counters, the profit-margin monitors and relentless marketers will eventually corrupt a fine product.

This is also illutrated in the whole Internet, itself, where instead of getting information we are beat over the heads with ads; and unfortunately creeping into a great company like Apple or the worldside standards of Windows.

Is there a solution here? Yes: blinders for our eyes, cotton for our ears, a the skill of not reading all the chapters of a manual.