I have photoshop and Xara extreme. Xara runs rings around Photoshop and the price is super cheap. Does everything Photo does but faster and easier.
Posted on 07/09/2013 10:32:26 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
The only way Adobe could really pull off something like this is if it they partnered with a hardware company to make an entire computer and peripherals optimized to just this one task, with software a generation or two beyond what exists today.
The whole system would be a rental.
It works for everything I need to do, which is mostly document authoring and spreadsheets. There are a couple of very minor little things that Word does better (i.e. mail merges, page rule formatting, and document reviews), but all tolled, I get everything done with it that I would do at work and I can read MSWord format stuff in it. All is good.
For serious amateur photographers and even professionals Photoshop Elements with a street price of about $100 is more than adequate. I have used the full version of Photoshop and there is very little I cannot do as well with just Photoshop Elements.
Adobe is stupid.
Further proof of that: Adobe Systems, Inc. has poured millions into the leftist extremist Salon web site.
I have photoshop and Xara extreme. Xara runs rings around Photoshop and the price is super cheap. Does everything Photo does but faster and easier.
In this day and age, corporations, following Enron’s early leadership in this matter, don’t want to own assets, they’d rather rent, like you and I rent beer when we swallow it, so that MSM, which is Adobe’s big customer, using its products to “improve” the pics of Obamugabe and others that you view on websites and in newspapers, will gladly pay rental fees.
Recurring charges was the way it was done in the olden days. But we bundled software with 24/7 support including free upgrades.
Software would be worth renting if I needed a feature very rarely (like once or twice a year), but I really needed it then. If I could rent it for a few days (or even a month) instead of buying a full copy of Photoshop it might be worth it. On the other hand renting software full time would be like leasing a car - a good way to flush a lot of money down the toilet in a hurry.
No way on Earth
Open Office-free- can turn files into PDDF
Does anyone remember when Microsoft suckered folks in with a 'subscription' for their OS. I can't remember which release it was. but they claimed something like 3 or 4 years of 'upgrades' included with the price. Then they proceeded not to not release any new versions for quite a while.
SUCKERS!
I'm all Linux. Don't actually pay for any of my software, though I have in the past when it made sense to me.
Did you use PC-DOS 7? I loved having REXX on a PC.
I’m in marketing and Adobe is my bread and butter. I view this as a very bad move. Not every company is going to want to pay $600 a year for Creative Suite and as an indvidual I do not want another monthly bill coming to my mailbox. Adobe shot themselves in the foot with this one Nd opened up the door to competitors to profit off their mistake.
How's this: BITE ME, ADOBE!
I wanted to like it, and I use it enough to keep it installed, but there’s several must-have features in Excel and Word that have no counterpart in OO. Also, I hate the moronic MRU file list that’s shared between all the OO apps.
It was the decision of the government contracting official, who decided that all the new machines, ca. 1993, were to be MS-DOS 5, with Virtual Basic.
After that, we all know how well Mr. Gates’ pocket was lined.
Not a big deal IMO, if you need Photoshop to run your business, you’ll pay it, if you don’t you won’t. I suspect even with the current model most home users are not running the full Photoshop, and many that are, are running bootleg copies.
With the very high price ($600+ for Photoshop) and up to a few thousand for the full CS suite, Photoshop is not aiming for the home user market.
For better or worse, Photoshop is the de-facto standard for web design and photo professionals, and paying $30/month is not really any more expensive than paying $600 and upgrading every few years. If you are working in this industry, and $30/month is too much money, than I suspect your business model is broken.
Linux plus open office (GNU) suites are the future. No, really this time.
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