How is this relevant? Gmail has always been a remotely hosted service. This is about Photoshop CS, not CC.
And I do not expect old software to do cloud updates/document sync. I expect it to keep working as is.
I also can't stand the endless "Needs connectivity" and "Set up syncing now" in modern software.
Gmail has always been a hosted service - not software that runs entirely on your own machine. Apples and oranges.
> Imagine creating software today with perpetual licenses but no updates or sync across devices. You would laugh it off your machine.
You mean like any number of extremely popular software packages like IntelliJ that offer perpetual licenses?
Updates come via paying the fairly high price to start with, you know, supporting the damned product you paid for.
Document sync is something that is provided via a bunch of other services if you need it - icloud/onedrive/dropbox/etc
But sure, come up with more laughable excuses to justify shitty company practices.
Feature updates just come in new versions, which you pay for.
Monthly payments can still work, many other companies use that model, and after a period of time, you're frozen at the last version you paid for (after a year for example) if you stop paying.
But yeah, screw them now - I used to have a usable paid version, but no longer - there are better alternatives now.
The quoted sentence is what people are bothered by. The program is still lying around on a disk, but cannot be used legally.
Imagine requiring set product lifespans in this day and age, you’d get laughed right out of the data centre.
Adobe cannot unilaterally change the rules of a sale they completed in the past. It’s Darth Vader’s “pray i don't alter it further” behaviour - a character built to be the representation of evil.