Posts by mstone

Quote: Originally Posted by Eluard  Also I am sceptical how many pirates there were in the professional environment. So how will this move put more money into Adobe's hands? Piracy wasn't taking money from Adobe...

Quote: Originally Posted by tribalogical  I paid for my license once. That worked for me. I pay for upgrades when I want to. No company should be able to dictate when and how much I will pay to CONTINUE using software...

There are quite a few posts with similar comments about professionals, agencies, freelancers etc. I too, like some others here would have preferred to keep an every other version refresh of CS but it never worked out because as soon as...

Quote: Originally Posted by iDave  Perpetual payments. Gotta love it. I don't know what the big deal is. Apple has a subscription iCloud service, so does Netflix, MLB, NBA, Dropbox, etc. Most people are used to...

I hate the new icons. I was so happy when they bailed on the artsy icons in favor of the periodic table style. Now they are back to a crazy impressionism style which only makes it more difficult to quickly recognize the icon. I like...

Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich  Quote: Originally Posted by mstone  With the subscription model you can upgrade as soon as a new version of each application becomes available or...

Quote: Originally Posted by macologist  What else is out there to replace my DW?  You can subscribe to Dreamweaver CC version for $19.99 a month   or buy Coda is $99 $75 up front.

Another issue that this solves for Adobe (and to a certain degree the end users) is that they don't have to upgrade all of their software on the same schedule. With the previous business model, customers were paying for a few...

Quote: Originally Posted by Michael Scrip  The $50 a month plan makes it easy to keep your finances under control... and you can spend large sums of money on cameras or other equipment to grow your business. That is a...

Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich  I wouldn't mind if Adobe went all-digital download for software distribution, but subscription-based software burns me up. It's bound to lead to price increases as they try to...