05-06-2013, 08:20 PM
C(-)ris wrote:
Doesn't bother me any, as I don't actually have to buy any product personally. But, I am extremely surprised, as that goes against what many adobe reps have told me. Although it was premature before, you may now commence with your sky is falling antics without comment from me.
I think they wanted to keep it a complete secret to prevent early and growing backlash.
From a support perspective it will be way easier to manage as everything is kept track of online and we won't have to deal with keeping track of who has what. I'm curious to see what deployment tools they include as we don't want every use to have to individually download the product.
Don't recall anyone saying it would cause the sky to fall... only that it would be the direction Adobe was going to take, sooner or later. We guessed "sooner", you guessed "never".
And you have every right to your opinion (don't want there to be confusion on that
I do agree with you that it would simplify support...
But there are enough "casual" or "non-money making" users of InDesign (and the rest of the Suite.. I'm just focused on what I use...) that are now going to discontinue use of the product that I have a hard time seeing how this is going to benefit their bottom line in the long run.
Maybe it will, maybe it'll be the best move they ever made... but I doubt it.
It does have me price-checking QuarkXpress though.
Looks like we don't qualify for their definition of "non-profit" however.