Autodesk criticised by 35 named architects (2020)

Post by hulitu » Sun, Aug 14, 2022, 2:12 PM UTC

salt-thrower wrote: post #93

alexashka wrote: post #85

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They're not oblivious, at all. The switch to subscriptions has been a giant success for Adobe. Their stock went from hovering around 30$ for a decade from 2000 to 2011-2012, to skyrocketing every year since they introduced the subscription model (in 2011-2012), now being at roughly 450$. Anyone who doesn't think that's a giant success is living in an alternate reality.

As usual, it’s success at the cost of increased user hostility. The company doesn’t care, because increasing the stock price is the only thing that matters to them, their board, and their shareholders. But it does make the lives of users worse. Companies get locked into licensing fees, students are put under ever increasing financial pressure. It’s just another example of “only stock price matters, we don’t care if u…

Post by rjh29 » Sun, Aug 14, 2022, 3:22 PM UTC

dghlsakjg wrote: post #78

rjh29 wrote: post #75

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The subscription model for Adobe actually makes photoshop more affordable for students than before, though. (Even if they pay more in the end)

1. Students didn’t upgrade every version. So the cost was amortized over many years. 2. The above point is moot because I, and every student I knew, used a school copy on a lab computer or… obtained a copy without paying

Post by civeng » Mon, Aug 22, 2022, 4:29 AM UTC

dkarl wrote: post #89

civeng wrote: post #6

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Try Vectorworks. They had BIM years before Revit was a twinkle in AutoCAD's eye. Perhaps they fell behind for a few years but now but now more than viable and so much more stable code.

When was the quality turning point for Vectorworks? My wife uses it and still experiences regular crashes, though to be fair she avoids upgrading because she doesn't want to learn a new set of bugs to work around.