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Creative Cloud Complaints Darken Adobe’s View of the Future

Creative Cloud may be the way Adobe sees the future, but lots of people don’t like it. Josh Centers outlines some of the problems with Creative Cloud, with suggestions on both how Adobe could solve them and how you can register your opinions.

 
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