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| for those who remember the computer world before the desktop revolution - welcome to the past. ___________________________________________________________________ Dann Stubbs - dann@darkskydigital.com Dark Sky Digital - http://www.darkskydigital.com http://www.RenderKing.com Value Priced C4D, VRAY Render Farm ___________________________________________________________________ On Dec 21, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Jim Curtis wrote: > Good points. I have a client with a heinous firewall. I guess I'd need my own satellite transponder. > > I've been working with enough hi-tech companies to know that the cloud is inevitable, and at some point, people who insist on hard drives are going to be on a dystopian par with Mad Max and lawless adventurers. At some point, local installs of software won't be an option. Your computer won't even compute... it will simply be an appliance to access one on the internet. You'll be able to rent all the CPU cycles, RAM and storage you'll ever need a la carte. This is probably Adobe dipping their toes in. And I'm glad they're not deep-sixing the old way just yet. I'm happy to watch from the sidelines for a while, and let the edge bleeders have at it. > > > On Dec 21, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Chris Bator wrote: > >> I see this as a price increase for me for sure, but I have 2 real problems with the subscriptions as a freelancer…. >> >> 1. Maybe I'm just paranoid but I am quite nearly sure that I will be somewhere without internet access and on a deadline and my software will want to check-in online and will stop me from working until I do… I will need some sort of guarantee that this will not happen. ever. >> >> 2. I need to keep multiple versions around for clients that are stuck on older versions… I have not seen how will that work. >> >> >> >> -chris >> >> >> >> >> -- >> chris bator >> cbator@mac.com >> http://www.ui.somebug.com >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbator >> interactive and motion design >> >> On Dec 21, 2011, at 12:28 PM, pixelbot@comcast.net wrote: >> >>> maybe my math is off but $400 every 18 months seem less than $50 every month, and are they going to bill you or automatically charge you credit card - so some finance charges may apply (if you don't pay it off each month) - I for one don't need another month bill/subscription. I hate the every version requirement - I was kind of a every other rev - mostly because I work with people who stay on old versions because they are comfortable - I had a artist friend that stayed on 6.5 well into 8. >>> >>> timt >>> >>> From: "Gary Berendsen" <gary@garyberendsen.com> >>> To: "After Effects Mail List" <AE-List@media-motion.tv> >>> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 11:07:09 AM >>> Subject: Re: [AE] Adobe's new upgrade policy and Creative Cloud licensing model >>> >>> I like the 50 per month as well, especially if that becomes a global price. >>> 32 euro at the moment's fine. Easy to write off as cost and no depreciation on the software. >>> I like. >>> So long not there is not a permanent internet connection necessary as I do work on stuff at places without connections sometimes. >>> >>> Gary Berendsen - VFX Generalist >>> http://garyberendsen.com >> > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> > |
