TightLines

crowley said:

Maybe Apple haven’t joined in because it’s a dumb idea that isn’t going anywhere. It’s 3D TV all over again. It’s pivot to video. It’s crypto.

I agree 100% - its a joke that the mainstream press and news media will try to recruit the next greater fools for… just as they have done with the proven scam, crypto (anything).

edr said:

Telegram is not "privacy focused" in any way. The Telegram company and the Russian state has access to all of everybody's stuff since the beginning of the service. For privacy stick to WhatsApp or even (much) better Signal.

I agree… I don’t trust any of them tbh… they all proclaim privacy until they get caught, then they fall back on we never promised total privacy.. kind of like Duck, Duck, Go recently… WhatsApp is Facebook… and we know how zuck operates, and signal is an unknown to me at moment… but the founder of that was also co-founder of WhatsApp… - they are all after data… thats how they make their money… that and providing back doors to who ever the highest bidding snooper is…. Typically a govt agency… 

polymnia said:

MAU47 said:

TightLines said:

And those subscribers aren’t coming back either - they are finished… I wish Apple would just give me back iTunes the way it was… People are getting sick of the subscription based services. They want to have ownership of the products they buy… if they don’t upgrade, then they don’t have the latest feature, but at least they still have what they have paid for to date… I avoid subscription based services and products and will even settle for a inferior product if that product is a one time cost pricing model. Look at how that greed has killed Adobe… people can’t get away from those products fast enough now… and they are. But thats what Wall Street influenced companies do and have happen to them… deservingly so.  

I don't disagree with you in theory, I am over everything is a subscription, but music is one area I don't mind since so much new stuff comes out and for the cost of a couple albums a year I can have almost everything Your comments about adobe are just be flat out wrong though. 

https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2022/Adobe-Reports-Record-Revenue-in-Q2-Fiscal-2022/default.aspx
https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2022/Adobe-Reports-Record-Revenue-in-Q1-Fiscal-2022/default.aspx
https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2021/Adobe-Reports-Record-Q4-and-Fiscal-2021-Revenue-Company-Outlines-Strategy-for-Next-Decade-of-Growth/default.aspx

The rumors of Adobe’s demise are greatly exaggerated. I am a pro user of Adobe software and I have never been happier. I’m not sure about the view from the cheap seats, but for those of use who make a living with Creative Cloud, times are good. 

By switching from Adobe Acrobat to PDFelement, you can allegedly even cut your costs by about 60 percent. It’s regularly $159, but you can sign up for a perpetual license for only $119 for a limited time.

Affinity will be taking a big slice of Adobe creative customers - they already have. It’s good software, very much like Adobe so there isn’t huge learning curve, and from what I can gather, the plug-in’s, etc… for the Adobe products will also work with the Affinity software… 

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/

The Wall Street funded reporting is just out there trying to recruit the next batch of greater fools… the ground swell of discontent with their pricing and now subscription based model is real and getting more and more traction… it wasn’t that long ago that Adobe didn’t have to really worry about competition… now that they’ve let the Wall Street greed take over the reins, they will have plenty of competitors…   

And those subscribers aren’t coming back either - they are finished… I wish Apple would just give me back iTunes the way it was… People are getting sick of the subscription based services. They want to have ownership of the products they buy… if they don’t upgrade, then they don’t have the latest feature, but at least they still have what they have paid for to date… I avoid subscription based services and products and will even settle for a inferior product if that product is a one time cost pricing model. Look at how that greed has killed Adobe… people can’t get away from those products fast enough now… and they are. But thats what Wall Street influenced companies do and have happen to them… deservingly so.  

Just pick a standard and stick with it and be consistent across all product lines… and let a standards review be conducted every 5 years for better proposed technologies to allow for advancements and improvements. 


Stop incentivizing these manufactures to change charging and cable standards/styles with every other product refresh. It just enriches them, and costs the consumers.