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hmlongco said:

I actually have the Adobe "Photography" Plan that just bumped up from $9.99/mo to $15.52/mo. ($19.95 listed on site).

Or had, rather, since I just cancelled it. I no longer use it enough to justify the cost, and have been using Pixelmator Pro for the odd work that I needed done.

Switching to a new program isn't easy... but it's getting easier, and I'm getting tired of Adobe's incessant price increases.

I'm currently going through the painful process of trying to delete the apps from my machine.

Apparently Adobe didn't hear about the "one click cancel/delete" law...

Adobe's choice to do an annual, billed monthly, and then a true monthly plan has always driven me insane. When I was a college student a handful of years ago, I was faced with the choice of cancelling any of my "unnecessary" subscriptions or not paying my rent. Silly me, I like living indoors, so I decided to cancel my Adobe Creative Cloud student plan -- I had finished my class that I used it for, so while it was nice to have, I didn't need it. At that point there wasn't any real clear information about early termination fees. I was about halfway through my plan. Started to cancel it and saw that I would be hit with a massive early termination fee. Fought tooth and nail to get it removed (and eventually did.)

Adobe still obfuscates the fee issue. On the pricing pages when you go to purchase a subscription, it simply says "you'll be charged an early termination fee" but does not say that it's 50%.  It may disclose it better when you make the actual purchase -- I haven't bought anything from Adobe in several years.

And to anyone who might read this -- I dunno if this trick still works, but it used to. If you're on the All-Apps "annual, paid monthly" plan and want to cancel, you may be able to save money by first downgrading your account to the Photography plan. Then when you cancel, you'll only be charged the 50% termination fee on a plan that is significantly cheaper than All Apps.

Again, haven't had to do this in a while, so I'm not sure if it works. Might be worth a try.

danox said:

The folding iPhone will be a niche product, and the howl of complaints from the crease (which will generate a class action suit) and the price which will never stop, one other thing the Chinese companies and Samsung have largely gotten a free pass on that crease, that won’t happen with Apple the YouTubers led by Jerry-rig are you gonna have a field day.

Actually we (the staff) were discussing something similar in the work chat earlier. You are not wrong at all about Apple getting dinged if the Fold were to develop a crease. It will happen.
  
You see it all the time with other stuff. Android phones also throttle performance on aged batteries, but when you say "Batterygate" (and honestly probably even just "performance throttling") people know you're explicitly talking about the iPhone. 

There's currently a $5 billion, thats billion with a B, class action suit against Apple over digital licensing, even though Apple uses the exact same licensing policies as Amazon or Barnes and Noble or any of them. 

I am not saying that Apple is a perfect company. Far from it. It's just a company. But its ethos has long been to release a product or service when Apple is ready, not purely to compete with its competitors. (Well, for the most part. Apple Intelligence is a good example of why you don't rush to keep up. Woof.)

Apple usually comes to the market later than competitors with a well designed device (or service.) People see the well designed products, want to buy them, do buy them, and then if anything happens, suddenly it's Apple misleading customers where its competitors haven't. 

Unfortunately, if you make a product that the public perceives as nice, you're gonna get raked over the coals if it isn't flawless in a way your competitors might not.

And yeah, JRE and the cavalcade of "lets break things for views" (which are all sponsored by big name companies like Anker, Dbrand, Chime, etc) will be be the first to YouTube with a "the TRUTH about the iPhone Fold -- IT BROKE WHEN I TRIED TO LIFT MY TODDLER WITH IT!!"

darbus69 said:

Hey Debbie Downer, how can you you say the iPhoneFold will not be an iPhone killer, when it is an an iPhone and therefore cannot kill itself. That was a whole lot of nonsensical words about attention grabbing headlines about a company which makes few mistakes and builds some of the most exciting and durable consumer products ever built.

I would suggest a padded Samurai suit.

 signed,

#NeverBrokeMyPhoneEver 

Ooh, look who wants to argue semantics. My argument was that a phone that folds will never replace a phone that doesn't. Of course, you knew that. You are, presumably, at least thirteen years old if you're on a forum, so you know how to use context clues. However, I'm not entirely sure if pedant is a better diagnosis than the alternative.

Also congrats on not breaking your phone. I have a movement disability, I dunno what to tell you. Congrats on your bog standard balance and coordination skills. 

dewme said:

I have no problem with Apple doing a taco phone. It would be just another buying option to consider. As long as they keep offering the pop tart phones, what’s the problem? Plus, with technology changes and innovation it is entirely possible that a future taco phone may be perfect for my needs. If they don’t build it we’ll never know. If rolled up display technology catches on we could be looking at a taquito phone as a successor to the taco phone. It’s all good. 

I am officially referring to all flat phones as pop tarts and all foldy phones as tacos. Thank you for this.

pulseimages said:

Just wrap yourself in bubble wrap. 

You ain't wrong, my guy. I took a spill in 2015 and somehow wound up with a five inch laceration across the spot right underneath my knee, straight to the bone. It looked like something you'd see out of the walking dead.

Six stitches, a lot of "how did you manage this" questions from ER staff, and a $6000 bill from the local megacorp hospital, and all I've got to show for it is a heinous scar.