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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) |
