OT: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

[Steve Johnson]

That's some interesting points and some of them are probably partially
true. What you're saying basically is that Adobe blames its customers for
its relative low profit margins and share price. If only we were more
rational and obedient, Adobe would be better off.

You're side of the mark about resellers. Adobe locks down pricing and
availability of its software; you can't buy old versions of anything from
anybody ever and you can't get more than a few dollars of discount from
anybody. Having other people sell for you is generally a good thing. But
again, in the Adobe way of looking at things, what's good for the customer
is bad because customers always do the wrong thing.

Adobe is making this change in anticipation of other changes yet to be
announced. If you love the subscription model you'll love whatever else
they have in mind for you. It's a good time to be an apologist.


On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Alan T Litchfield <alan at alphabyte.co.nz>wrote:

>
> On 12/05/2013, at 6:36 AM, Steve Johnson wrote:
>
>  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.
>>
>>
>
>
> Decreased cost for license management, increased cash flow through
> subscriptions, constant income stream as opposed to periodic peaks related
> to new product releases, increased profit margins, better share value,
> regional price control and management (we typically pay 3x the US cost for
> the same software), better release management (no more pesky resellers and
> middlemen), better profits from cutting out middlemen and resellers,
> therefore even better share value, more accurate profit forecasts at
> shorter time intervals, therefore even better share value,...
>
> Alan
>
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