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Can someone, preferably from the Acrobat team, tell my why that team makes applying updates to large amounts of computers as hard as possible?

Because i'm just kind of curious about it. Logically, it makes no sense. Yet they do it over and over:

• No native installers for patches and updates. (This is actually worse than making you manually install the main application the hard way.)


• No cumulative updates, so if you're behind, you have to stroke the updater manually over and over, (Acrobat 8 via the Adobe Updater), you have to answer the same inane dialogs over and over, even though the updater is chaining many, many updates together in the illusion of the update, (Acrobat 9 via the Adobe updater), or you download them and manually apply them to every.single.machine. (Both if you download from Adobe.)


• Even if you install Acrobat as part of CS, you have to run the Adobe updater from inside of Acrobat or it will never know you have Acrobat on your system. This is really bad, because if someone doesn't know that the Acrobat team is being this stupid, it can lull them into thinking they're up to date.


• You can't even check for updates as a non-admin.

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