Quoting Darren Addy <[email protected]>:
The thing I think we all worry about is how high the monthly
subscription rate will go, particularly with a product that has
virtually no competition like Photoshop.
I'm not sure that there's no competition. For the Mac platform
Serif's recent release, Affinity Photo, seems to be getting good
reviews as a Photoshop alternative (I'm not a Mac man so I don't know
for sure about that). Even software like Zoner Photo Studio is getting
better all the time in raw support.
The thing is, though, older versions of Photoshop still do most of the
things that newer versions do. Certainly I could live with CS3 if the
CC subscription becomes outrageous. Of course, if Adobe lumped their
DNG Converter into the CC subscription, that might complicate things
with newer cameras.
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 10:50 AM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2015-04-24 23:45 , Bob W-PDML wrote:
A better analogy is photocopying a book rather than buying it, and
photocopying it is a lesser crime than stealing it. But still a crime.
right, it's a license violation, not a theft
i proposed a theory many years ago that Adobe purposely tolerated the
widespread "pirating" of their large collection of fonts because it made
their fonts ubiquitous, and it supported their other offerings
the subscription model is not so much about license violations, though, it's
because it is harder and harder to excite people about buying the next
version when their apps are more or less feature-complete; "death of print"
has something to do with it as well; revenue from the apps in Creative Cloud
apps was on a long-term revenue slide when the subscription strategy was
launched
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