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Re: New Photoshop business model = Cloud and Pay by month
Keith Martin 2013-May-10 15:18:00
On 10 May 2013, at 15:42, "texas360dave" <#removed#> wrote:
> We can't afford this new business method - as most of our effort is HOBBY related.
I am *very* interested to hear everyone's feelings on this.
As I asked on Twitter a few days ago:
"Should software be a tool that you buy and use forever, or a club membership that you keep paying for?"
And as the editor of a major tech magazine replied,
"There's going to come a point when subscription fatigue sets in. Adobe could be the straw that busted the camel."
What's also interesting is that online designers increasingly say they don't need Adobe applications.
This move by Adobe is designed to force everyone to use the pay-monthly pricing model, thereby fixing the massive financial famine-feast problem that was set up with Creative Suite was first introduced. But it looks like it will also loosen the company's grip on the pro-level creative software tools market.
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