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RE: New Photoshop business model = Cloud and Pay by month
Rick Drew 2013-May-10 16:26:00
I can see Adobe's point - over 50% of the Adobe software out there is
pirated. We all know several people that use it. BUT - What if I decide to
stop paying the monthly fee? Now any file I created with Photoshop is
essentially being held ransom. As much as I like Adobe products, I am not
paying them a fee to keep my files editable. I'll stick with CS6.
From: #removed# [mailto:#removed#] On Behalf Of Keith
Martin
Sent: 2013-05-10 10:19 AM
To: #removed#
Subject: Re: New Photoshop business model = Cloud and Pay by month
On 10 May 2013, at 15:42, "texas360dave" <#removed#
<mailto:texas360%40swbell.net> > 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.
k
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