Well. All I know is I love it. At $20 a month, I have access to the full line of Adobe products, and since I'll be in school for the next 4-5 years (maybe longer if I decide to go for a Masters), that's a total win in my column. I would NEVER have been able to afford to buy the products outright right now.
I do have to say though, that if you were to REALLY investigate and look at the costs that companies in the US have to go through to market the products in other countries, that you would be surprised at WHY they have to mark up products. Let me give you just a small list to consider: 1) legal fees, regulations, paper filing, corporation setup, trademark searches, patents applied for, etc, etc, etc. Of course all the staff and attorneys and meetings and time that it takes just to LEGALLY setup whatever company needs to handle the distribution of the product on that soil. Since every country has very stringent licensing fees, rules and regulations. Heck I am just exhausted thinking about all that. 2) For physical products, such as the previous boxed versions of the Adobe products we are complaining about, the import taxes, fees, and paperwork required to get them to whatever country they needed to get to were probably a lot more than we think. 3) For downloadable products, there is still #1 to consider. So it really isn't fair to consider product A sold in the US for $X versus product A sold in the UK for $X. Now how did Adobe get away with Australian pricing? I don't know. Unless we have someone from Adobe on the list that can go ask the international department how their fee breaks down, and whether or not they just shaved the profit margin, we probably won't ever know. Just saying. I think there is more that meets the eye and that THAT is being forgotten in our passion to have access to software all for one low price ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:363647 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
