OT: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

[Shmuel Wolfson]

If the only option is subscription, the reason people will keep paying 
is to keep their access to the software, instead of paying for upgrades 
due to improvements. This reduces Adobe's incentive to add new features 
that they normally would add in order to convince people to upgrade. The 
upside might be that instead of working on new features they could focus 
on stability, but the lack of incentive to improve sounds like it will 
hurt the user in the long run.

In all fairness, if Adobe is insisting on a guaranteed income, they 
should be willing to lower the price in order to get that guarantee. So 
the price of the subscription should be lower than the price of constant 
upgrades. I'm under the impression that the subscription is about the 
same price as constant upgrades.

Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133

On 21-May-13 7:35 PM, Shlomo Perets wrote:
>
> Just signed the petition and indicated the following as the reason for 
> signing:
>
> "It is really a matter of letting users choose, rather than 
> aggressively force this or that option them.
>
> Clearly, many Adobe users are still using older versions because many 
> newer versions/upgrades were mediocre, half-baked, not too promising 
> and/or too expensive. Instead of making an effort to produce 
> inspiring/irresistible upgrades, they want to force all to constantly 
> pay for the same software…"
>
> [nothing original… I'm sure that these points and many other valid 
> points were already made in the different threads in so many forums]
>
> Shlomo Perets
>
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> ---------- Original message ----------
>
>
> At 14:54 -0700 20/5/13, Karen Robbins wrote:
>
> Adam Engst's article in TidBITs, Creative Cloud Complaints Darken 
> Adobe's View of the Future, 
> (<http://tidbits.com/e/13765>http://tidbits.com/e/13765) makes/shares 
> some excellent points. If the Creative Cloud experiment succeeds, 
> TCS/FrameMaker could be next.
>
> I see from this article that there is a petition on Change.org to try 
> to persuade Adobe to abandon this sales model. Please go here if you 
> feel strongly about this issue:
>
> <http://www.change.org/petitions/adobe-systems-incorporated-eliminate-the-mandatory-creative-cloud-subscription-model>
>
>
>
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