To be honest with you Adobe was great. I don’t mean to be a piece of shit or anything, but I think too many people were pirating their software, and they started figuring out workarounds for that. I really don’t get where they’re at now. I haven’t used their software for years. I did own it (still do I suppose) when it existed a hundred years back. I think I was the only one I knew who did. Yet I knew a lot of people who worked with Photoshop and Illustrator. Mind you, I think Adobe can suck rocks. I just felt like the “Tragedy of the Commons” or something like that happened because they couldn’t figure out how to get more people to just buy the software. Mind you they were charging and arm, a leg, and some ass for it even then. I think when they created Lightroom that was a move in the right direction. Different tiered software for different needs. Also I know a lot of people who couldn’t afford it pirated and gained a great variety of skills. That people will always be out here bootlegging to their hearts content. It’s just I feel their move to a service based software was basically to fight their inability to control piracy. It was one of the first that I remember seeing, and it sadly became pretty much the predominant way all companies stay afloat nowadays. (Siphoning funds from people like mosquitoes)
Just to clarify one more time - I am not pro subscription based services nor am I pro Adobe. I do however understand Capitalism demands the wheel be turned.
Adobe wanted to be pirated, they priced their product out of reach of everyone except professionals. The only way they got new users was people who grew up using cracked copies.
If they wanted to sell to everyone they would have lowered the prices decades ago. For the longest time it was cheaper to fly half across the world to the US, buy Photoshop and fly back to Australia than it was to buy the software here.
Adobe’s '90s pricing made the definition of “usury” insufficient. Things did not improve.
I still run CS6. I’ve little reason to use it these days, but I don’t have to pay monthly to open an old file. What they did by switching to a subscription model in my case was lose a customer for life.
With all the ATS bullshit, I ended up having to go back to Word because neither LinkedIn nor Indeed could parse my InDesign resume. Both would tie incorrect roles with dates and job descriptions because “PDFs are hard” essentially.
While I was studying 25 years ago every student had bought an education version of Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 at the local shop, which was less than a 100$. In the meanwhile everybody was sharing a cracked copy of Adobe Photoshop since the only license available was upwards of 600$. They absolutely did that to themselves.
To be honest with you Adobe was great. I don’t mean to be a piece of shit or anything, but I think too many people were pirating their software, and they started figuring out workarounds for that. I really don’t get where they’re at now. I haven’t used their software for years. I did own it (still do I suppose) when it existed a hundred years back. I think I was the only one I knew who did. Yet I knew a lot of people who worked with Photoshop and Illustrator. Mind you, I think Adobe can suck rocks. I just felt like the “Tragedy of the Commons” or something like that happened because they couldn’t figure out how to get more people to just buy the software. Mind you they were charging and arm, a leg, and some ass for it even then. I think when they created Lightroom that was a move in the right direction. Different tiered software for different needs. Also I know a lot of people who couldn’t afford it pirated and gained a great variety of skills. That people will always be out here bootlegging to their hearts content. It’s just I feel their move to a service based software was basically to fight their inability to control piracy. It was one of the first that I remember seeing, and it sadly became pretty much the predominant way all companies stay afloat nowadays. (Siphoning funds from people like mosquitoes)
Just to clarify one more time - I am not pro subscription based services nor am I pro Adobe. I do however understand Capitalism demands the wheel be turned.
Adobe wanted to be pirated, they priced their product out of reach of everyone except professionals. The only way they got new users was people who grew up using cracked copies.
If they wanted to sell to everyone they would have lowered the prices decades ago. For the longest time it was cheaper to fly half across the world to the US, buy Photoshop and fly back to Australia than it was to buy the software here.
Adobe’s '90s pricing made the definition of “usury” insufficient. Things did not improve.
I still run CS6. I’ve little reason to use it these days, but I don’t have to pay monthly to open an old file. What they did by switching to a subscription model in my case was lose a customer for life.
With all the ATS bullshit, I ended up having to go back to Word because neither LinkedIn nor Indeed could parse my InDesign resume. Both would tie incorrect roles with dates and job descriptions because “PDFs are hard” essentially.
While I was studying 25 years ago every student had bought an education version of Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 at the local shop, which was less than a 100$. In the meanwhile everybody was sharing a cracked copy of Adobe Photoshop since the only license available was upwards of 600$. They absolutely did that to themselves.
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