I see ADBE mentioned constantly on this sub. I am not sure how many people actually use their products versus just looking at metrics. I have used many of their products since their inception in the early 90's. Their software is failing, and getting worse by the day. For one, the free version of Davinci Resolve is vastly superior Adobe Premier. The paid version of Davini is a one time $299 expense, and is widely used in Hollywood and by professional studios. After Effects is still widely used and does integrate better with Premier but those gaps are closing by third parties who offer similar, easier, and better results.
Photoshop and Lightroom are starting to merge with one another. Both are trying to integrate AI into their individual programs and just facing a ton of overlap. As it stands, Lightroom is just basically a photo organizer where Photoshop is meant for more intense edits, but Lightroom now has the ability to do a vast majority of what Photoshop does. But the biggest concern I have is the latest update to Photoshop.
To anyone who uses it regularly (I use it every day as a real estate photographer/videographer) their rollout of Generative AI was nice at first. But it has not really improved. Chat GPT is dramatically better at doing edits, so much so that realtors who I shoot for don't even need me to edit things anymore, they just put the images into Chat GPT, tell it literally whatever they want, and it does it for free, and better than Photoshop can.
Their latest release of Photoshop v 27.3.1 is now allowing users to use Gemini 2.5/3 instead of their in house Firefly models. To me this is a very, very bad sign. There is no way that a company like Adobe has the resources (data centers) of Google etc. And if they are allowing third party, or as they are calling them 'partner AI models' what does that do to their bottom line? They have to be paying access for compute to Google and once that becomes a drain on their resources, they will continue to fall even further behind. What am I missing here?
[https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly/partner-models/google-gemini-nano-banana.html](https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly/partner-models/google-gemini-nano-banana.html)