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One big reason is that a lot of big, old, monolithic software doesn’t deal well with the concept of sandboxing, and the Mac App Store requires that apps have sandboxing enabled. Adobe for example installs junk all over your system with creative suite apps, and that wouldn’t be allowed with sandboxing on. Many system APIs are also restricted or unavailable with sandboxing on.

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Since Adobe products aren't strictly necessary for any of my work, that's the primary reason I use alternatives now: the junk all over the system, the constant calls home for updates, and the hidden little launchers.

What alternatives do you use for Premiere and After Effects?

Maybe have a look at Davinci Resolve.

Apple Final Cut and Motion

This might be peripheral, but I use ScreenFlow not only for screen casting, but also surprisingly robust video editing (from blank canvas).

Same here, I steer clear of Adobe where I can. I have licenses for Pixelmator, Affinty Photo, Sketch, and Affinity Designer. Between the four my needs are always met and their combined cost is both static and lower than what a CC subscription would mount up to.

Are you a fan of the Affinity products?

Huge fan! Earlier versions of Designer were buggy, but it's improving. It's still not great at .ai imports though.

At this point I wonder how loathe Adobe would be to lose the promotional channel direct to their users that their current model offers. Half the time when the Adobe installer raises an alert it’s to say “hey check out this webinar” instead of “software update time” and I hate it.

I will certainly agree that their stuff is gonna need a lot of work before it can live in nice tight little packages. It sprawls everywhere, it needs places to put plugins and their files, changing this is a big enough task that it probably qualifies as a major feature for a new release and I wouldn’t be surprised to see it be unstable around some edge cases for months

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