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by golden_apples 5138 days ago
Who is the target audience who would have enough of these applications installed that they would "own the dock"? At most I only ever used maybe 5 programs out of the whole Creative Suite enough to maintain shortcuts for them. Even the people I know who are professional animators or whatever and live in the Adobe world don't typically use much more than that number.

I do like the new look (especially the splash screens), although I rarely use any of the programs anymore. But if I were responsible for the branding, I would have looked at the most common combinations of programs as distinct sets and picked colors that way. The entirety of the suite package only makes sense to look at as a single entity to Adobe... a user who has Dreamweaver installed is unlikely to also have AfterEffects, and so on.