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This looks great, but it is incredibly hard to figure out how to actually buy a subscription on that site. Go here - https://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=... ;
It's hardly difficult. You click Store > Adobe Store and right under Photoshop are 3 buying options including the subscription.
I think subscription pricing fits the software model vary well. However, their pricing is stupid. If you pay for 6 months it would have been cheaper to just upgrade the product outright. Software is not like renting a car where you already know how to drive, you really need to know how to use it before it becomes useful and that takes time. Edit: Now I could see paying that as a daily rate. If you work on this stuff…
The people they are really going after are those that need to swap Adobe files (e.g. creative consultants and their clients): Inter-version compatibility is a headache for any participants who aren't on the latest version. Things could get particularly ugly if they start releasing features to subscribers that aren't otherwise available until the next version.
I think subscription pricing fits the software model vary well. However, their pricing is stupid. If you pay for 6 months it would have been cheaper to just upgrade the product outright. Software is not like renting a car where you already know how to drive, you really need to know how to use it before it becomes useful and that takes time. Edit: Now I could see paying that as a daily rate. If you work on this stuff…
For example, I would probably pay a few thousand dollars for a license that allowed Photoshop to be installed on a dozen workstations, but can only be running for one user at a time.
At least around here, if you're not a full time designer you get GIMP not Photoshop. Adobe's leaving money on the table.
I think subscription pricing fits the software model vary well. However, their pricing is stupid. If you pay for 6 months it would have been cheaper to just upgrade the product outright. Software is not like renting a car where you already know how to drive, you really need to know how to use it before it becomes useful and that takes time. Edit: Now I could see paying that as a daily rate. If you work on this stuff…
Photoshop is around $600-700 for the full product, $200 for an upgrade. That means that the full product plus one upgrade is approximately equivalent to two years of subscription -- which is the amount of time Adobe is planning to go through two versions anyway. After that point, owning plus upgrading is cheaper, but it seems likely that by that time Adobe will have tweaked the subscription and upgrade prices to make…
Edit: You can also upgrade student editions to full retail versions, so "having a copy" includes the student edition.
PS: For most non professional people a 400$ copy of CS3 is plenty. Next year they can probably upgrade to CS7 (for 200$) and then stay on a 2-3 year upgrade cycle after that.
This looks great, but it is incredibly hard to figure out how to actually buy a subscription on that site. Go here - https://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=... ;
What would be useful too is if a portion of your 'subscription' could count against a full purchase if you decide to buy. Let me pay $49/month for a couple months for indesign while I need it. If I decide that I want the full version, give me a prorated discount.
What would be useful too is if a portion of your 'subscription' could count against a full purchase if you decide to buy. Let me pay $49/month for a couple months for indesign while I need it. If I decide that I want the full version, give me a prorated discount.
Yea, I would also love to say to my landlord "Hey bro! You know I've been renting this apartment from you for a few years now, and I would like to buy the joint at a prorated discount"
I think this is a good idea for Adobe. Maybe this will deter some people from downloading the software illegally. I only need to use PS once or twice a year, and the thought of downloading it illegally has crossed my mind several times. I haven't downloaded it illegally, instead I use it at my school's computer lab for free (besides what I pay for tuition). If I could download PS for $35 a month, I may just download…