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Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 14:12:07 -0700
Subject: Re: [AE] CS is DEAD
From: Steve Forde <steve.forde@gmail.com>
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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Thread-Topic: [AE] CS is DEAD
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I want to respond to this directly as I have seen a lot of this FUD (Fear,
Uncertainty and Doubt). Frankly, this is nothing but idle fear mongering.

A subscription model has zero incentive to jack prices over time as it
then introduces a strong barrier to entry for new customers.  If you live
in the US - go to a Verizon or AT&T store - and see if you think entry
prices have gone up over the last 10 years.  They haven't.

Sure there's been say new services or devices that cost extra - but the
base cost of the platform in fact usually goes down - NOT up.

As for what we at Adobe have in store downstream, I can't comment - but I
will state that we are highly motivated to provide value via Creative
Cloud, hence the many promotions with discounts we run as incentive to
join it.

S.

On 5/7/13 8:58 AM, "Dann Stubbs" <dann@darkskydigital.com> wrote:

>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)