<div dir="ltr"><div><div>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.<br><br>
</div>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.<br><br></div>
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.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Bethany Lee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bethany.lee@lakeshore.com" target="_blank">bethany.lee@lakeshore.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Ditto what Bill said. Just glad I didn't have to write all of that. :-)<br>
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From: <a href="mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com">framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com">framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com</a>] On Behalf Of Bill Swallow<br>
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To: Steve Rickaby<br>
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Subject: Re: OT: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only<br>
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</div>It's not SaaS, it's subscription. Yes, the name "Creative Cloud" (CC)<br>
is confusing but it's not web-only applications. You download and<br>
install them.<br>
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I like this model for a few reasons:<br>
<br>
1. Cheaper for multi-application users. Rather than buying one-off or<br>
a suite at a time, you get access to all CC apps for a monthly fee. If<br>
you're corporate, that means you can easily control the number of<br>
licenses at any given time. (Ever experience licence rot, when you<br>
lose an employee or several and have open licenses just collecting<br>
dust? You paid for that.) If you're a contractor, you only have to pay<br>
for the apps for the duration of the gig, and not have them sitting<br>
around unused. (This is great for short-term contracts where they just<br>
need an InDesign jockey for a few weeks to edit some files.)<br>
<br>
2. While you may only have immediate need for one or a few apps, you<br>
have all the others at your disposal to learn. Think about it; how<br>
many times did you wish you had access to the full version of a<br>
product to learn it for work use evaluation, or for resume fodder? Now<br>
you have that option at a reasonable price.<br>
<br>
3. You can completely avoid the back version blues. How many times<br>
have you worked in a team where you decide on a tool, get the initial<br>
funding, and then get push-back on upgrade pricing from the bean<br>
counters? And then hire someone new, who needs a license, but they<br>
don't sell version X anymore and to get everyone on version Y would be<br>
a huge expense? Or your team is merged with another, or your company<br>
acquires another company, and your software versions don't match up?<br>
Problem solved.<br>
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I don't see this as being a bad thing. I see it as being different.<br>
<br>
</div>Bill<br>
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