Re:Adobe shambles – Why subscription software should be illegal
by situational87 on Monday July 29, 2019 @07:45PM
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Nobody paid $600 for Office. A few large companies did, maybe, but nobody else. That's kind of the whole point of subscription software, right? To cut back on the insane 90%+ piracy rates of the good old days?
Re:Adobe shambles – Why subscription software should be illegal
by scarface74 on Monday July 29, 2019 @08:47PM
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Yes. And I get far more value out of the $100 a year Office subscription that is continuously updated than I did out of the pirated Word 5.1 that I kept for years past it’s prime.
It seems like a win/win. Microsoft gets more money from me and I get more value from Microsoft.
This is demonstrably not true. Take Microsoft Office for instance. I got my first Mac in 1992. Office was $600 for the Mac. You were only suppose to use it on Macs you owned, and you definitely couldn’t get a Windows version for free if you owned the Mac version.
Now, for $100 a year, I can get Office and run it on my Mac, Windows PC, iPhone, iPad, web and Android device if I had one. I also get one terabyte of storage and add up to five additional users with the same benefit.
The usual counterpoint is that you could spend the $600 a month and own it “forever”. But if I had bought Office in 1992, I would have had to have an emulated version in 1997 for the PPC Macs, if I had bought it in 1997, I would have had a non native classic MacOS version.
Today the situation would have been worse with the iOS release cycle if I were stuck on an older version.
The same could be said about Adobe.