[Leica] Petition Against Adobe Subscription Model

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

And you can still buy perpetual licences for Photoshop CS6 , Creative Suite
CS6 and Lightroom if you choose. Lightroom is included if you lease the
whole suite btw.
For everyone satisfied with the features of the version they have life will
go on! Sounds like new camera models doesn't it?

For Australian and I would guess UK customers the prices are now identical
for the subscriptions whereas the boxed versions *and the download
versions*cost a LOT more in our countries than the same product sold
in USA for
example and we  were geo-blocked from purchasing from the USA site.
 For this country I just checked prices for the (full version) boxed CS6
master collection and Lightroom 4. A bit more than AUD $4500. Makes $50 a
month sound rather more attractive if I needed several of the applications.
Just Photoshop and Lightroom will suit me fine though.



*Fun tickets in my pocket, visions in my brain* -- Jimmy Buffett

Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 9 May 2013 18:23, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, at least one of his examples is wrong - you can still buy Office as
> a standalone product, the only thing is you don't get a box anymore - you
> have to download it. In other words, there is a choice, its not a fait
> accompli.....
>
> I agree with the general point of view that this is the future, we might
> as well get used to it and to paying high rates for software that we need
> to use
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 09-May-2013, at 1:36 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
> > For those wanting some facts before the pitchforks and boiling oil come
> out!
> >
> http://scottkelby.com/2013/my-take-on-adobes-announcements-yesterday-at-the-max-conference/
> > http://www.lightroomqueen.com/2013/05/08/adobes-changes-stop-breath/
> >
> >
> > *Fun tickets in my pocket, visions in my brain* -- Jimmy Buffett
> >
> > Cheers
> > Geoff
> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> >
> >
> > On 9 May 2013 15:21, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
> >
> >> I think this is over the top. Petitions are for political causes. This
> is
> >> just a business that has adopted a pricing strategy that many people (me
> >> included) do not like. The way to deal with that is not through
> petitions
> >> but by not buying the product in question. Cash talks much louder in
> this
> >> context anyway.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Nathan
> >>
> >> Nathan Wajsman
> >> Alicante, Spain
> >> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> >> http://www.greatpix.eu
> >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> >> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
> >>
> >> YNWA
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On May 9, 2013, at 4:19 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> >>
> >>> For those who are interested (Others, please delete):
> >>
> http://www.change.org/petitions/adobe-systems-incorporated-eliminate-the-mandatory-creative-cloud-subscription-model
> >>>
> >>> There might be some succor for us photographers, it may seem. By the
> way,
> >>> here in India they want the equivalent of US$50 per month for
> Photoshop,
> >>> price gouging personified!:
> >>
> http://petapixel.com/2013/05/07/adobe-thinking-about-a-creative-cloud-bundle-geared-toward-photographers/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Jayanand
> >>>
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