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For every freelancer who sits in an Adobe product 40 hours a week, there's many who need an Adobe product for a couple hours every few months. For these people,
by TrevorJ 6y ago
For every freelancer who sits in an Adobe product 40 hours a week, there's many who need an Adobe product for a couple hours every few months. For these people, it's a pretty terrible deal, and feels more alike a tax, or rent-seeking than it does like paying for a useful service.
- thendrill 6y agoThis exactly. I am not asking my employer to spend so much money on something I am not using for free in my free time.
- mattkrause 6y agoSubscriptions are also tricky to "purchase(?)" at some places. I'm pretty sure I'm not actually allowed to charge them to a grant.
- ncpa-cpl 6y agoI tried buying a student discount subscription in my country and I could never finish the process. I then contacted two local partners and none of them allowed me to buy the license as a student. One said that the student discount did not exist, and the other one siad thst my University had to buy it for me.
- dylan604 6y agouse it for one month. stop paying for it. pay for it again the next month you need it. stop paying for it.
- visarga 6y agofrictionless process, smooth as butter
- dylan604 6y agoHow is it any different than renting a car, or a hotel, or any other various things one might rent? There's just this illusive concept people seem to have of owning software. This kind of model would have had me as a legit paying Adobe customer way back when I did "borrow" their software. I never had enough money to buy a >$1k bit of software for a couple of things, but I could have found $50 (maybe closer to $60 if not doing 12 months??) for a month's legit use of the software for a random freelance gig
- dthul 6y agoBut Adobe doesn't make it easy to pay for it one month and don't pay for it the next. Their site uses dark patterns which make you choose yearly subscriptions instead of monthly (happened to me even though I thought I had a monthly subscription) and terminating it is a whole ordeal with several steps.
- visarga 6y ago> How is it any different than renting a car, or a hotel, or any other various things one might rent? All of these other activities are far from being friction-less. But the problem is that you have to remember to disable the thing otherwise it's going to burn a hole in the pocket and they are counting on that.
- TrevorJ 6y agoI fail to see how this isn't objectively worse than purchasing software outright.
- mortenjorck 6y agoAdobe sells access to Creative Suite in one-year increments exclusively. You can opt to pay monthly, but with a minimum one-year commitment.
- nerfhammer 6y agothis. Subscription software models extract more money from the pro market but cut out the casual market completely.