OT: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

[Steve Johnson]

Almost everyone keeps ignoring the question of CHOICE. There's no doubt you
can make a case for subscription but you can also make a case for getting
the disks or downloading the software.

Of what benefit to Adobe is depriving us to choose what we want? Why is
mailing me disks for additional cost or providing a download bad for Adobe?
Clearly it isn't. There is something else going on.

Certainly Adobe will jack up the price of subscription. They might have
other things in mind also but the point is, why make everyone adopt a model
that doesn't benefit everyone? What's in it for Adobe? That's what I'd like
to know.


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Bethany Lee <bethany.lee at lakeshore.com>wrote:

> Ditto what Bill said. Just glad I didn't have to write all of that. :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:
> framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Bill Swallow
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 2:22 PM
> To: Steve Rickaby
> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: OT: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only
>
> It's not SaaS, it's subscription. Yes, the name "Creative Cloud" (CC)
> is confusing but it's not web-only applications. You download and
> install them.
>
> I like this model for a few reasons:
>
> 1. Cheaper for multi-application users. Rather than buying one-off or
> a suite at a time, you get access to all CC apps for a monthly fee. If
> you're corporate, that means you can easily control the number of
> licenses at any given time. (Ever experience licence rot, when you
> lose an employee or several and have open licenses just collecting
> dust? You paid for that.) If you're a contractor, you only have to pay
> for the apps for the duration of the gig, and not have them sitting
> around unused. (This is great for short-term contracts where they just
> need an InDesign jockey for a few weeks to edit some files.)
>
> 2. While you may only have immediate need for one or a few apps, you
> have all the others at your disposal to learn. Think about it; how
> many times did you wish you had access to the full version of a
> product to learn it for work use evaluation, or for resume fodder? Now
> you have that option at a reasonable price.
>
> 3. You can completely avoid the back version blues. How many times
> have you worked in a team where you decide on a tool, get the initial
> funding, and then get push-back on upgrade pricing from the bean
> counters? And then hire someone new, who needs a license, but they
> don't sell version X anymore and to get everyone on version Y would be
> a huge expense? Or your team is merged with another, or your company
> acquires another company, and your software versions don't match up?
> Problem solved.
>
> I don't see this as being a bad thing. I see it as being different.
>
> Bill
>
>
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