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| someone tell me if i am wrong in my math before i could pay $400 to upgrade my desired app of say photoshop - usually i could get two years before adobe released a new version (say i only use photoshop like probably 95% of the market) now i have to pay $49 x12 months ($600) every year - even if all i want and use is photoshop? sure it is a better value for those who need and want to use every single adobe app ever made - but most probably don't in the real world. this essentially forces all users to pay for all those other adobe apps they don't want and have never needed to buy. pretty shrewd really. i see it as adobe had near complete saturation in the market with some segments of their apps - and the apps are so good and so complete they are really struggling to find worthwhile features to put in to make that huge market justify paying to upgrade - adobe needs that upgrade income to keep feeding the large beast it has become. probably the largest saturation is photoshop and illustrator for example - so now they will essentially force everyone who only wants or uses these two apps to have all their other apps as well so your $200 cost per year (averaged every two year upgrade) for photoshop now just turned into $600 per year AND if you stop paying you will lose access to your data in those native formats. imagine if in the next version of photoshop the format changes to make it not backward compatible (so your old photoshops not on cloud can't open this new improved PSD format) as well as you don't see too far ahead if you can't see this will hurt every other app maker out there (business strategy) - after all if you just want and use photoshop but have every other adobe app on your hard drive as well - why would you bother to pay for any other app you may only occasionally need? you won't you will just use what is there even if you don't like it or there are better options out there (cause hey it's "free" and sitting on your hard drive) this is a market share attempt both at forcing increases of revenue and as well to squeeze out competition - witness freehand and anyone who remembers and owned the original macintosh remembers the dearth of painting and writing apps those first handful of years - because when you already have macwrite and macpaint - why would you go spend money on another app? (this was proven true and eventually the reason apple stopped including the apps) in today's world - it is near impossible to compete with the massive behemoths of microsoft and adobe - "real" innovation is suffering and app bloat is rampant. not much different then any other industry that becomes a massive money maker, cars, computers, etc... now you need millions of dollars for lobbyists to compete in nearly any established industry, how do you think that affects innovation and a newcomer to compete in the market? - computer apps are not all that much different. why do you think microsoft installs it's office suite on every PC sold (and sells office to teachers etc for $49 it is not because they think teachers are underpaid - it's market saturation strategy) also this whole "cloud" thing is very flexible - like once adobe finds 90% of it's user base transitioned (via no other option) on "cloud" there is not much to stop that $49 monthly fee from going to $249 per month, though it will probably go up in smaller steps, $79, $99, $129 etc - this is like printing money at that point - need to increase revenues to get that fat bonus? let's up the monthly "cloud" price - after all the "users" will HAVE to pay it now or their apps go poof and they loose access to all their data/files (insert evil laugh "moo hoo haa haa" here) look at all these ISP's that use loss leader "sale" prices like that to get you on broadband (low starter prices good for 12 months and then oops they go up usually double or more) or guess what? oops again - you app is disconnected and you are out of luck. in a recent "future feature" survey that was sent to me by a different company i was reading the "fine print" and it said that by agreeing to take the survey you agree to their terms and included in the many clauses was any public negative comments about their app means they reserve the right to deactivate your copy of the app... yeah i deleted the survey... i'm not giving up my rights (what little are left) that easily... just keep in mind that a corporations interest is in making more money and bonus' the corporation - nothing to do with making the users life better or easier on the bright side - most of these world domination attempts usually backfire and it will hopefully spurn a new wave of apps by small developers that will leap a generation ahead in features and thinking. though it may be a frustrating few years during that future transition for most of us. have a great day dann ___________________________________________________________________ Dann Stubbs - dann@darkskydigital.com Dark Sky Digital - http://www.darkskydigital.com http://www.RenderKing.com Value Priced C4D, VRAY Render Farm ___________________________________________________________________ On May 7, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Dan Spiess wrote: > > Overall, it adds to the cost of our doing business, and that means money out of my pocket, without anything in return. > > How can I support that? > > Dan Spiess > Digital Lighthouse Productions > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> > |
