Re: The Creative Gouge
Re: The Creative Gouge
- Subject: Re: The Creative Gouge
- From: Ben Goren <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 05:56:55 -0700
You -- and Adobe -- are missing the point.
I've been happily on the Adobe upgrade treadmill since before the Creative Suite. I've spent lots and lots of money on their products, because they've been selling what I want at a price I'm willing to pay.
But they've now decided to stop selling what I want and will only rent to me what I don't want.
The result?
My previous decisions to buy, not rent, are about to pay off. For me -- but not for Adobe. I'm cashing in the insurance I've paid for by actually buying the software; the insurance that the software will continue to work for forever.
But that means no longer spending any money on Adobe products.
For many years I rented an apartment. It was relatively cheap and worked out well enough, but the landlord had the right to come in at any time and would evict me if I ever failed to make the rent payment.
I've since bought my own home and paid off the mortgage. Now, I'll always have a roof over my head and I don't have to worry about missing a rent payment. And, oh-by-the-way, though it meant a lot more money up front, it's so much less expensive over the long term it's not even funny.
When Adobe sold software, I was happy buying it. But I'll not rent anything on a long-term basis ever again.
Cheers,
b&
On May 8, 2013, at 5:40 AM, Thomas Lianza <email@hidden> wrote:
> To both of Ben and Illiah,
>
> No one forces you to use Adobe products, if you don't like it use the Gimp
> or whatever software you want to, but don't waste our time whining about
> something you have no control over. Many of us have found the program
> completely agreeable. It saves a lot of hassles and it works well.
>
> Good luck to you.
>
> On 5/8/13 8:37 AM, "Ben Goren" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On May 8, 2013, at 5:21 AM, Iliah Borg <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> If you have an annual membership, you'll be asked to connect to the web
>>> to validate your software licenses every 30 days. However, you'll be
>>> able to use products for 180 days even if you're offline.
>>
>> For this version.
>>
>> But what about the next? And if you don't like the new version for any
>> reason, do you have to sever your Internet connection for the next six
>> months to prevent being forced to upgrade -- and what do you do after
>> those six months are up?
>>
>> And what if Adobe should go bankrupt, or just have trouble paying their
>> own Internet hosting bills? Are you confident that they're too big to
>> fail and thus will get a government bailout? What if *you* have trouble
>> with *your* Internet connection?
>>
>> The Creative Cloud is a great *OPTION* for a service, especially casual
>> users. But for professionals, you're now trusting Adobe to never do
>> anything you don't like for as long as you want to access your files.
>>
>> Remember the bad old days when you couldn't use third-party inks (and, in
>> some cases, papers) in your printers, and the manufacturers fought tooth
>> and nail to keep it that way? Remember the analogies with cars that only
>> worked with the manufacturer's brand of gasoline?
>>
>> This is worse. Much worse -- for the simple reason that Adobe can now
>> change anything out from underneath you for any reason, including malice
>> and incompetence or a simple difference of opinion, and you have no
>> recourse whatsoever but to go out of business.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> b&
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