On 2015-06-17 24:03 , Malcolm Smith wrote:
I much prefer the software on CD/DVD, but I understand that it must be more profitable to remove the marketing and disc production costs.
i don't have numbers, but i don't think that's the subscription's advantage for Adobe; i think the advantage is cash flow and roping in the users who would otherwise skip versions; the infrastructure for license verification and updates, plus the cloud storage features, and keeping user data safe (at which they've already failed once) is actually fairly messy and probably expensive; i think Adobe's acquisitions of more than one company were steps on the path to building this infrastructure
Now, I understand, having pushed most of the customers down the subscription route, it becomes our fault. I read that over 50% of custom is via this subscription method a while back, so they are only supplying what the market wants. Thanks for that.
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