Sounds a lot like Microsoft's plan where you can pay monthly for an XBox 360
and XBox live service. In a year you've spent more than just buying the XBox.
'Course the Adobe plan does provide access to all Adobe software, but to make
it worth it you'd need to use several of the products quite often.
Another issue is what about upgrading? If Adobe changes a file format or alters
or removes some feature or function that you've come to depend on, you're SOL?
Sorry, we've updated your subscription and you have to use the latest release,
like it or not?
I've never been a fan of "cloud" services, which have existed long before
someone thought up that stupid name. At any time it can be shut down or go away
for any number of reasons. Company goes bankrupt or gets bought and the new
owner "decides to take the company in a different direction" or the company
just decides to quit the whole "cloud" thing.
I lost a website when the ISP I was with was bought out and shut down without
warning, the day before Thanksgiving. This was circa 1998 or 1999. One day
*poof*, no access, nothing. Found out the new owners had come in the middle of
the night, packed up all the servers and everything else and left one guy with
one phone to field a few thousand phone calls.
A perfect example of the "We're tired of this shiznit" version is when
Microsoft shut down Live for the original XBox and original XBox games on the
360, on April 15, 2010. Such a nice day too, Tax Day in the USA.
Another classic example is Circuit City's Divx no-return encrypted DVD rentals.
Pay a low price for the movie then pay the vendor for every day you want to
watch it. Pay a larger fee for unlimited viewing (Silver plan) but only on one
player. The "Gold" option to unlock a disc for unlimited play on any Divx
player was never implemented, nor was the option to command all the players to
permanently unlock for all the discs. Instead, when the market shunned the Divx
scheme, Circuit city just shut down the authentication server, turning all the
Divx discs into permanently useless trash, except for the ones people paid
retail prices for the privilege of being able to use only on a single device.
Pay once, use forever, all data stored locally is more secure and nothing the
company does or what happens to the company can affect your use of the product.
Remember Chuck Woolery's tagline from the early years of Wheel of Fortune "You
bought that, it's yours to keep.".
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