mike_mccue
The Adobe cloud will end up being $720 a year for the rest of your life... and that's per person... which is too say that you can only use one or two of those licenses at a time... which is too say you are paying for all of them and not using most...
... and it's $720/year for the rest of your life...
OR you get kicked to the side of the road and have to use Gimp.
No thanks... I stocked up on free standing licenses.
I bought more Photoshop 6 because it was my LAST Chance to upgrade before they pulled my plug... I haven't even opened the UPS box because CS4 does everything need... but now I'm still in a upgrade chain should something happen where I need PS 7+.
That was like a $200 tax/license just to avoid getting shafted worse further down the road.
It seems to me that buying into Adobes cloud is like telling Adobe you are willing to get taken to the cleaners year after year.
Adobe needs to think about a business model that is sustainable rather than just attempting to keep the growth model going when they don't really have much left to do with their products.
All they have done in the past few years is made each of their products do more of what their other products do and then try to sell you all the products that already do everything. Why would you need 3d animtaion in Photoshop when you already have it in AE, PP, and Flash? Just because? That's not worth $720/year for the rest of your life.
It's not a business model that will last... it's currently in the executive's cash extraction phase.
Luckily the existing apps actually work real well.
best regards,
mike
Well, I for one am not seeing this $720 anywhere Mike. If you
don't already have at least Creative Suite CS 3, it's $49.95 per month ($600 per year) and, if you do, it's only $29.99 per month ($360 per year). Let's say you go ahead and buy the whole thing new for $2,300, then you update each time for another $800-$1,000 - sure, they're yours (something I really prefer), and I realize you don't need to update every version, but just buying the full product and getting one version upgrade is about the same as six years of Creative Cloud.
Of course, for me currently, the monthly charge is WAY more affordable. I've still got more research to do.
Another option for me (since it seems I'm always going back to schools to learn new stuff anyway) is to enroll for a class or two and get the Student version (since it's only for me anyway) for around $750 plus tuition.