Photoshop on the Cloud

I logged on to adobe.com for the first time in a year or so;
 
just wanted to see how many photoshop versions I was behind.
 
They're really pushing cloud leasing.
 
Photoshop $20 a month; and their entire Adobe catalog for $50 monthly.
They advertise 6 new filters and they're available only with a cloud subscription.
 
Wonder if Cakewalk, Cubase, etc are far behind?

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soens


From what I've been hearing it appears that eventually (this could be way in the future though) everything will be "up there". Your "personal computer" will be nothing more than a "terminal" for accessing it.

OMG,


Back in the 70s we had "mainframes" and were connected to them via CRTs.


I hope we never get back there again.

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There is very little "personal" left in personal computers. I hate the fact that I'm being forced to buy more bandwidth to accommodate the cost saving tactics of corporations. If I want a hard copy invoice for any of my utilities I have to pay $2 for it. They cut their costs and pass it on to the users.

Eventually the people that control your internet access will have you in a corner. It's almost there now.

Unfortunately that's exactly it. The cloud will be the new mainframe. It all stems from the obsession that there has to be "the next big thing" in the techno world.

No. This is more than just something new in technology. As others have pointed out this is a return to the past, before computers could be miniaturized to fit on a desk.


This is about enormous corporations owning your computing power, tying you up in long term contracts for which you will pay a monthly fee, cutting you off if you miss a payment, holding your data hostage,  never having to support stupid users who install other stuff stuff that their software is incompatible with on hardware that they do not support, and never worrying about anyone pirating their software or re-selling their "licensed not purchased" products to someone else. Control of these and other factors, and the requirement that you accept that control to get anything done is an extraordinarily valuable commodity to the few companies that will be left after the shakeout/consolidation that will inevitably come with the atrophy of the PC model.


The advantages will be the same as when Bell Telephone was the only game in town. You would take the hardware they sold you, and the service they offered at the price they demanded and get a telephone that worked every time you put your finger in the little round holes and moved the dial in a circle. No more jokes about poor reception from AT&T or the unfairness of no rollover minutes--back to the future.

The day I have to lease any software rather than buy it will be the day I stop using that software. I'll have whatever I have at that point and I'll just use that. The reality is that even now, the biggest obstacle to me producing top quality music is me, not the shiny new things that I don't have. As for personal data, then I won't even go there. The only worthwhile reason I can see for that is the "what if the house burns down" scenario, but there are ways of handling that yourself. I also refuse to do internet banking as to me the more people who sign up to that brings the day when there is no other choice ever closer. Just about every time I go into the bank, the cashier will say....."you do realise you can do that online ?" I give the same answer every time........."you do realise that when everyone does that, you won't have a job any more ? "
 
 

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Isn't NagBap in the Clouds?

My bank, like others, now allows you to put a stack of money and checks into their ATM which is supposed to count it and tell you exactly what you gave it (along with nice little pictures of the checks on your receipt).

I used it late one night to depost $70 and make sure I'd have my rent covered and it decided to eat $50 of it.  All I ended up with was two of the $10's and a slip saying something went wrong so I needed to go to the bank early the next day.  Well, duh, if I really had wanted to go to the bank early the next day I wouldn't have been depositing cash late the night before!  In any event, I rearranged my schedule so I could stop by the branch when they opened and... three and half weeks later, the money was finally returned to my account.

I've never had a bank NOT want a deposit before!

Hi,

I'm just really tired of rich companies finding even more ways to keep track of your information and to make sure they can share it with their own sister companies to make sure you buy things through them and not anyone else. Somewhere along the way, this has to crash, because it has become legal spam, a legal virus, and a way to collect so much information on you and your computing that hiding is stupid, and even insolent on your part!

Specially when it comes to downloading and playing illegal stuff ... all you need is one of those ... and Apple is one of them, that has been using the "cloud" idea with iTunes for many years, but no one says anything!

Don't support it ... but the idea that Big Brother is here ... is alive more than ever ... and WE SUPPORT IT! "Cloud" is just a different word for it!