Has anyone discontinued their Adobe CC subscription? Other questions, also
Dec 27, 2014 19:45:09 #
happy sailor wrote:
PS has always been a very expensive package, I thi... (show quote)
:thumbup: Absolutely. Do the math.
Dec 27, 2014 19:51:15 #
luvmypets wrote:
Thank you for all the info, Searcher. I greatly appreciate you taking time to answer all my question and explain how it works. This will really help me with my decision.
I just don't like the idea tha I am paying for some thing that I will never own. It's just like leasing a car. At the end of the contract you have nothing for all the money you've paid.
I just don't like the idea tha I am paying for some thing that I will never own. It's just like leasing a car. At the end of the contract you have nothing for all the money you've paid.
While PS is certainly top of the heap for graphic professionals, there are several excellent alternatives for the rest of us. My favorite is Corel Paintshop Pro x7. I have not found anything better. But I have purchased the sub for PSCC. I'm on the front end of the learning curve with PP but years of working with PS. So when I have a deadline, I return to PSCC.
Adobe has been very much like a drug dealer. They get you hooked--by providing a very good product but at a very high premium. Then they are miserly with tech support, charging extra for even the most basic. CC is fairly new. I am expecting that when I renew my contract they will have raised the price to $15 a month.
Dec 27, 2014 20:24:32 #
I decline to continue another discussion with the hard-heads who irrationally decry the business model of Adobe and its offering of Photoshop Creative Cloud at $9.99 a month.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
Dec 27, 2014 23:02:00 #
erickter
Loc: Dallas,TX
Gene51 wrote:
Baseless fear mongering is as bad as vapor ware - unless you can provide some links that support you claim of the inside track on Adobe's long term strategy, then your post is useless noise.
If you like CC, then that's you choice. But your arrogant rant is baseless and views that oppose yours are what a public forum is about. Adobe, MS, Autodesk, etc, know renting software is more profitable because their software has reached the mature stage. I had an inside track as one of their dealers for 10 years. Attacking others that disagree with your over inflated ego is baseless noise.
Dec 28, 2014 02:55:09 #
rxrose wrote:
i look forward to reading the forum every day. I learn something every time!
Yes indeed!. Me too rxrose!
Dec 28, 2014 03:21:46 #
anotherview wrote:
I decline to continue another discussion with the hard-heads who irrationally decry the business model of Adobe and its offering of Photoshop Creative Cloud at $9.99 a month.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Dec 28, 2014 03:36:40 #
erickter wrote:
If you like CC, then that's you choice. But your arrogant rant is baseless and views that oppose yours are what a public forum is about. Adobe, MS, Autodesk, etc, know renting software is more profitable because their software has reached the mature stage. I had an inside track as one of their dealers for 10 years. Attacking others that disagree with your over inflated ego is baseless noise.
No need to be prickly and personal about this. Namecalling and criticizing the opinions of others is completely off topic. Yes, fear mongering and vapor ware are two things that posters do to justify their reluctance to subscribe to software, and it is completely baseless. Unless you are a member of Adobe's product management team, you have no clue what they have in store. And to promote the idea that you do have an "inside track" is just pure baseless conjecture - aka total BS.
I have been in the computer industry, originally as an Autocad dealer since 1983. I am no newcomer here. The two sides of renting software is cost containment which leads to greater profitability, which in turn results in more stable pricing. We have seen this with many companies which adopted this model. And that is not conjecture, it is fact. Adobe got into early trouble because their pricing wasn't working, and over the first 18 months they dropped their price to the point where they were no longer losing customers, which they did initially.
There have always been, and likely will always be, cheap alternatives, because CC doesn't work for everyone. But market dominance doesn't come through deceit and manipulation - and acting like a drug dealer. Adobe saw how ugly that could get, and responded accordingly - in their and everyone's best interests.
Now, stop acting like a complete fool, have some eggnog, and enjoy the rest of the holidays.
Dec 28, 2014 15:56:45 #
I went the route also of the DVD--installed Lightroom 5 and also installed Elements instead of the subscription so far this has worked out good for me.
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