Adobe (Photoshop, Lightroom, etc.) let’s you simply deactivate the license on your old machine and install and use it on a new machine (or on a couple of machines). Pretty simple process. I don’t think there’s anything I’ve ever had to purchase again just because I moved to a new PC (which I do about every 3 years).
Exactly. Adobe, like most software today, requires a license that is restricted to a particular machine at the time of installation. To use it on another machine, you have to deactivate the license for one machine, and reactive the license for a different machine.
Mac App Store works quite differently. There is no license. Software is not associated with any particular machine. The software a user purchases is associated with that user. The user can then install that software on any number of machines. There is no license to deactivate on one machine and then reactive for a different machine. Simply install it on as many machines as you like.
There are also no CDs/DVDs. Everything installs online. But if a user prefers the old-fashioned way, software can still be installed that way.
It works differently than what you’re used to. And, it’s done by Apple. Therefore, it is revolutionary and game changing.
I use Windows. If I needed software (and of course I never never do) I could go to Pirate Bay and download it for free.
http://thepiratebay.org/search/adobe%20photoshop/0/99/300
That’s not new at all. I have Windows, and for years, software has just been available.
It seems like mac has just set up a new website to download software, am I right here? And it’s great, especially to people who like the way mac does things.
And I get that apple knows exactly who you are and what software you have. People thing that’s a great thing. I’m not sure why people need a bunch of expensive macs in their house, and why they need photoshop on every one of them.
But this is definitely a bonus to those people who have multiple macs in their house, want photoshop on all of them, but don’t have a minute to type in a serial number or an activation code, but do have the time to download the software from the internet over and over.
Without seeing it, i’m sure that the mac store is “cool”. Apple stuff typically is. Cool and typically much more expensive.
Licenses can get pretty stupid. Back when Quark was king, they wanted a newspaper to pay for all new licenses because they were moving their offices. According to Quark, the license was for the old location, and didn’t cover the new one.