Re: Adobe commits suicide
I go back to what I said earlier, no businesses are not going to quibble when they hear $50/month. Single users are going to say, well hell no! that means at least I will have to charge at least $20 extra for each piece of work more, just to be standing still. Don't think they have shot themselves in the foot, it's a goldmine in some areas. I just feel sorry for the single user who will put up with what ever the CS version that they are on. If they get a file which was produced by a newer version of software they might use they're Adobe account for that but I would ask for a PDF version from a client/company and work from that.
I worked with a national Scottish newspaper who were working with Illy version 8, for all their work, when I started, from ads. to cartoons and the like, then taking it into Quark, for layout and publishing, this was only 6 years ago so they are not a great example to use but are they? Everyone who worked there were really comfortable using the software over many years and had never heard about transparency so paid no attention to the problems or the extra scope that that gave them in the design process. With a few others I demonstrated what an upgraded version of AI could do and they bought 3, CS 4 licences. over 12 computers for the ads dept. which included the work that they did on weekend supplements. The reason for mentioning this is to show that when you learn skills and get compliment using the programme you don't really want to further these skills or should I say get the chance in company time to forward skills to the next version. I went to a few Adobe road-show days where they were selling the next version and all it was to us was a free lunch out. How many years since Adobe brought to both AI & PS 3D capability, for AI CS 1, for PS I think CS3. How many tutorials have you seen showing these capabilities, very few I think. This statement is to show that using many of upgraded tools in PS and AI are not that important.
Sorry about being off topic most of the time here but what I was trying to communicate is that the larger firms will think the cloud system rocks while the smaller dept's. will just keep plodding along using the same old versions. Only time will tell which wins but I think very slowly Adobe will die as times are changing in both web and print. Many people said this when Freehand & Flash rule but what happened there, Adobe gave them the push and bought them out. They have too much clout to disappear so I would imagine over the next few years when desktops are out and only touch screens are allowed ,Adobe will be there in some form, maybe not quite as big.
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