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| On May 17, 2014, at 11:35 AM, Jim Curtis wrote: > Anyway… as I said, it's not outrageous at $600/year for all those apps, even though that's about twice what I was used to paying to stay current with Production Premium CS. > > I'm also paying for a lot of apps that I don't use. That's like my health insurance going up to cover people who use services I don't. I'm sure not going to start building web sites just because the software to do it is available in my bundle. I don't necessarily think of it as paying for apps you don't use so much as Adobe throwing those apps in to make Creative Cloud seem more attractive. If you were never going to pay for an app, doesn't cost them anything to give it to you for free. The key figure is that you now pay twice as much as before to stay current. I bet that's true for the vast majority of Creative Suite users. That's a pretty steep price hike. Really what has happened here is new users used to pay a lot more to get in the door, and existing users paid less for upgrades. Made sense because a new user just got thousands of features while an upgrade has maybe a hundred. But everyone pays the same now, so new users are getting a much better deal and veterans are picking up the slack. The important question is: are we better served by this model? Does it mean that Adobe gets to focus more on keeping existing users happy, or does it mean that Adobe can sit back and get lazy because we keep paying them even if they don't add anything we want? Brendan |
