Adobe switching way to purchase their products

[Tommy]

Instead of paying for the software one-time, they're switching to a crazy monthly fee.

What's your guy's views?

 

 

 

SOURCE: http://www.carbodydesign.com/2013/05/adobe-switches-to-subscription-only-model/

[skummgummigubbe]

do you have a source ?

 

but to me a rely bad move,  becouse adobe is used by many in many ways

[Tommy]

Well, I haven't read an article directly on that, I can look.

But my software has been asking me to do that a lot

And many people have been telling me about it.

Updated OP with a source.

[M_Targaryen]

Agree it's a bad move but considering how well established they are with pretty much everything it doesn't surprise me they have made this decision.

 

Think about the amount of people and companies that use this and how many will be willing to pay a subscription to keep on using it. Companies especially won't want to change anything and will want to keep things simple so will foot the bill. Adobe are gonna make a lot of money if this goes ahead!

 

I would expect to see a lot of alternatives to adobe pop up pretty soon.

[Tommy]

Agree it's a bad move but considering how well established they are with pretty much everything it doesn't surprise me they have made this decision.

 

Think about the amount of people and companies that use this and how many will be willing to pay a subscription to keep on using it. Companies especially won't want to change anything and will want to keep things simple so will foot the bill. Adobe are gonna make a lot of money if this goes ahead!

 

I would expect to see a lot of alternatives to adobe pop up pretty soon.

 

 

It's a bummer because it takes so long to get comfortable with their software, then they make it so expensive. o.o

 

Even more expensive than it already was.

[M_Targaryen]

It's a bummer because it takes so long to get comfortable with their software, then they make it so expensive. o.o

 

Even more expensive than it already was.

 

Bummer is an understatement :-P

 

Here's hoping that it's only going to apply to newer versions of everything. Like the older versions, of say photoshop, won't change to a subscription but you won't get newer features that come with the newer software. That's probably wishful thinking though

[Tommy]

Bummer is an understatement :-P

 

Here's hoping that it's only going to apply to newer versions of everything. Like the older versions, of say photoshop, won't change to a subscription but you won't get newer features that come with the newer software. That's probably wishful thinking though

 

I think they are letting you buy a subscription on CS6 but I think CS7 is going to be entirely subscription.

[M_Targaryen]

I think they are letting you buy a subscription on CS6 but I think CS7 is going to be entirely subscription.

 

It annoys me that they can do this kind of thing. I get they are a business and wanna make money but it's sneaky waiting until there's a point where most places use your product, and in some cases probably need it to run a business, then decide they wanna regularly charge for it. Will be interesting to see what alternatives pop up though

[Tommy]

I mean, there are already a bunch of software that in theory does the same thing, it's just photoshop has a lot of plugins and features that are specific to it.