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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