Adobe replacement

[JoeM]

Yoyodyne ArtWorks wrote:
... In Round Two I interviewed one-on-one with a vice president of Marketing. She asked me several questions about long-term marketing trends, and I explained why I thought Software as a Service (SaaS) was the coming thing and how it made a lot of sense for Adobe. It guarantees a much steadier revenue stream than boxed software, which gives customers too much discretion as to when they will spend money on an upgrade. I went on about this topic for a few more minutes....

So we really have YOU to blame for putting the idea in their heads! :villagers:

[$tevie]

Bosco wrote:
Adobe has changed Creative Suite to Creative Cloud and now only offers a subscriptions to their software. Which is great if renting software is OK with you. Personally, I'd rather own my software with no strings attached.

Read yesterday's thread here:
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1552805

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You never owned it. You owned some discs is all you owned, discs which were useless once you'd installed them on two computers and which you could theoretically get in trouble for lending to a friend or selling on eBay. This merely eliminates the pretense that you ever owned anything except the license to use their software.

[davester]

$tevie wrote:
[quote=Bosco]
Adobe has changed Creative Suite to Creative Cloud and now only offers a subscriptions to their software. Which is great if renting software is OK with you. Personally, I'd rather own my software with no strings attached.

Read yesterday's thread here:
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1552805

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You never owned it. You owned some discs is all you owned, discs which were useless once you'd installed them on two computers and which you could theoretically get in trouble for lending to a friend or selling on eBay.
I discovered that it was even worse than this when my CS2 license stopped working when I upgraded to Tiger (or was it Leopard) on my old powerbook. I reinstalled and CS2 worked perfectly on the new OS for the 30 day free trial period but the license would no longer activate. I called Adobe and they said that they no longer supported installing CS2 on the new OS. What they really meant was that they had made the licensing key software inaccessible to machines running newer OSes, since the CS2 itself worked perfectly in free trial mode. Those people are crooks.

[Bosco]

Article Accelerator- Thank you for posting the links.

I will explore them a bit more... Some work with iPad. Personally, I've never designed with iPad. But, I'm willing to give it a try.

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[Bosco]

$tevie wrote:
[quote=Bosco]
Adobe has changed Creative Suite to Creative Cloud and now only offers a subscriptions to their software. Which is great if renting software is OK with you. Personally, I'd rather own my software with no strings attached.

Read yesterday's thread here:
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1552805

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You never owned it. You owned some discs is all you owned, discs which were useless once you'd installed them on two computers and which you could theoretically get in trouble for lending to a friend or selling on eBay. This merely eliminates the pretense that you ever owned anything except the license to use their software.
Stevie - You're right, I own the discs. I don't have to worry about a monthly fee or periodic increases to the monthly fee. I like it that way.

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[davester]

Bosco wrote: Stevie - You're right, I own the discs. I don't have to worry about a monthly fee or periodic increases to the monthly fee. I like it that way.

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You only have to worry about them cutting you off from the licensing as they did for me after only two years of use.

[jdc]

Bosco wrote:
We have CS6 and expect it to work at least for a couple more OS updates. I think we have 3-4 years before we need to make the switch. But, I'm starting to look now.

Seems a bit pre-emptive? I mean who knows what kind of options might be available then?

Who knows how you might feel in 3-4 years? Perhaps the monthly fee might appeal to you at a later date?

For example, with my workflow, I find myself *rarely* using Illustrator anymore. The pen tool in Indesign or Photoshop work well if I need to draw. 99% of my "logos" end up in Indesign anyway. Since nearly 99% of my work just ends up as a PDF, how it gets created is far less important.

Heck, I could do most of what I do in something like Pages.

For me tho, the $30 a month fee is perfect. Gives me a bunch of extras that I couldnt afford fora price that I can justify.

[$tevie]

There's a lot of really basic Illustrator stuff that can be done in InDesign now. Since I am nothing better than a really basic Illustrator user, I don't particularly need Illustrator at all. And for now, Photoshop CS4 is fine for me and InDesign CS6 doesn't mind that it's an older version.

[DeusxMac]

Yoyodyne ArtWorks wrote:
...which gives customers too much discretion as to when they will spend money...

Ahh, marketing. Don't ya just love it? :eye:

[JoeM]

Something to keep in mind if you are happy with your current Adobe design software:

1. Keep your current Mac
2. Keep it's current OS
3. Keep your current installed copy of CS whatever
4. Keep your upgrade/cloud subscription money in your own pocket

I have been thinking of my Macs and their installed sofware as turn key solutions for years now. I can turn on my PM G4 933 and still do 98% of my day to day work.