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A Rant Against Splash Screens

Posted by Soulskill on from the useless-colorful-rectangles dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This controversial post by Adobe's Kas Thomas asks if splash screens are just a sign of program bloat and callous disregard for users. It suggests that big programs should launch instantly (or appear to), perhaps by running against an instance in the cloud while the local instance finishes loading. Users of cell phones and tablets are accustomed to apps being instantly available. This is the new standard for performance, the author argues. Nothing short of it will do, any more."

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  1. Adobe complaining about bloat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Adobe complaining about bloat?

    1. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      The guy works at Adobe. For all we know, his desktop interface IS entirely flash, and Internet access IS faster than his local disk.

    2. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wait a minute. I'm a manager, and I've been reading a lot of case studies and watching a lot of webcasts about The Cloud. Based on all of this glorious marketing literature, I, as a manager, have absolutely no reason to doubt the safety of any data put in The Cloud.

      The case studies all use words like "secure", "MD5", "RSS feeds" and "encryption" to describe the security of The Cloud. I don't know about you, but that sounds damn secure to me! Some Clouds even use SSL and HTTP. That's rock solid in my book.

      And don't forget that you have to use Web Services to access The Cloud. Nothing is more secure than SOA and Web Services, with the exception of perhaps SaaS. But I think that Cloud Services 2.0 will combine the tiers into an MVC-compliant stack that uses SaaS to increase the security and partitioning of the data.

      My main concern isn't with the security of The Cloud, but rather with getting my Indian team to learn all about it so we can deploy some first-generation The Cloud applications and Web Services to provide the ultimate platform upon which we can layer our business intelligence and reporting, because there are still a few verticals that we need to leverage before we can move to The Cloud 2.0.

    3. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? by mindwhip · · Score: 4, Funny

      But if we keep our stuff in a cloud...well, who asks about the integrity of clouds?

      Clouds are 100% watertight and never leak... Rumours of rain are just FUD.

      Oh wait... I think I got that wrong somewhere.

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    4. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? by phantomfive · · Score: 5, Funny

      Best ad I've seen lately is from Western Digital:

      The Western Digital Personal Cloud! Have your own backup of data in the cloud in your own home! Maintain control of your data.

      I was going to try to explain why it's funny, but if you don't get it, you never will.

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      "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
    5. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 4, Funny

      Someone already invented Windows.

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  2. Adobe against bloat by Noughmad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kettle, meet blackhole.

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    1. Re:Adobe against bloat by Kenja · · Score: 4, Funny

      Worse then that, Adobe against splash screens. Welcome to Photoshop, please stare at this logo while we load plugins and filters you wont be using.

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  3. Loading . . . by Art3x · · Score: 5, Funny

    Loading . . .

    First post!

    Ah, nuts

  4. Re:Notes? by MBGMorden · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nonsense. Lotus Notes is one of the best operating systems out there. As soon as it gets a decent email client and calendaring solution it'll take the market by storm. Just wait.

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  5. Re:Notes? by localman57 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So it's like the Playbook then?

  6. Let me guess by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    2014: ...

    Profit?