And the thousands of customers were dissatisfied Adobe for push subscriptions. Very unhappy.
"Adobe to pay rent for the rest of my life is absurd," said Nick Scott, who leave a comment on the page of the petition. "I'll definitely look elsewhere next time I need to improve."
Derek Schoffstall Harrisburg, Pennsylvania., A photographer and a student, launched the petition Monday announced by Adobe that it was ending development of the licenses of traditional "eternal" applications that once sold are paid Creative Suite (CS) and used as long as the user wants and would only be an update of the famous Photoshop, Illustrator and other software that creative when it has been approved by subscription.
The new name for the lease not own Suite: Adobe Creative Cloud (CC).
CS6, the latest version of the software box will be maintained with bug fixes and will continue directly from Adobe at retail. But there will be no additions or CS7 versions of this function.
The petition asked Schoffstall Adobe's plans subscription only to reconsider, restart CS6 development and continue to offer perpetual licenses to subscriptions sites.
"It seems that you have decided to give all but a big business. Well, you made a mistake," read the petition. "We are in a corner, because although we are able to use CS6 now, in the future we will have to keep your subscription CC to subscribe and always relevant with the updated software."
In the preface to the petition, Schoffstall argued that consumers and Independent end up paying more in subscription fees that they had to buy a license for a one time fee. "In the short term, the subscription model seems to agree, but over time the only company that offers the advantages of all this is Adobe," he said. "The (more) current model pays a one time fee to infinity access is a much better business model and it is better for the consumer."
Subscription software may cost more than a perpetual license, which is used for a relatively long time. Perpetual license CS6 Design and Web Premium Edition and teachers, for example students, lists for $ 599th In the standard $ 30 per student of the month and the rate of teachers for Creative Cloud, a student would end up paying more for a subscription after 20 months or two years in school.
In other words, if a student buys a perpetual license and use it for more than 20 months, he or she is., The head of a friend who went the subscription
The turning point for what Adobe calls "individual" subscription to Creative Cloud is different: The monthly subscription fee of 50 dollars to more than a perpetual license to C6 standard design, which lists for $ 1,299 added after 26 months.
It takes more time to Creative Cloud to exceed the price of CS6 Design and Web Premium, the most expensive and most complete package Adobe. At the same monthly fee of $ 50, a single Adobe could pay for 38 months up to three years and two months before more than $ 1,899 to the price list for the perpetual license.
Those who leave comments on the application Schoffstall have often costs as the reason for their dissatisfaction. "Due to the nature of the" upgrade gunpoint "the nature of change, and forces" rent "software at prices that could be anytime jacked, I'm not with the brand further Adobe," Lee said Whitman. "It is suicide for a small business. "
"This is disastrous for Independent already suffering in this economy," writes Gay Tammy.
These comments echoed those of Microsoft earlier this year when he started his own software subscription model, Office 365, began to consumers and small businesses.
But Microsoft, simply because he made Tuesday when he took a blow to Adobe's decision, retained perpetual license for Office 2013 running on Windows and Office for Mac, 2011.
"Unlike Adobe, we believe that the movement of people from software subscription services will take some time," said Clint Patterson, Director of Communications for the office, in a blog post. "We are committed to an election as premier software obliged sold powerhouse and services on a subscription basis."
Microsoft declined to say if it was a subscription model for all office move, although Patterson said it was inevitable. Some experts believe that it will happen in the next five years.
In an interview with Wall Street analysts Monday, Adobe executives defended the change. Not surprisingly, one of the main reasons they gave regular income from subscriptions, which peaks when a large version upgrades, and the valleys between the two updates.
"The transition to sales leads only a recurring revenue bigger and bigger," said Mark Garrett, Adobe's chief financial officer, during a presentation to analysts.
Garrett also said that 500,000 customers currently subscribe to Creative Cloud, and has goals of 1.25 million euros at the end of 2013 and 4,000,000 in 2015.
source macworld.com
