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Historical note: Photoshop cost $895 in 1990, which is more than $2,100 today. Original MacWorld magazine review: https://archive.org/details/MacWorld_9006_June

• macintux 3y ago
  Long ago I paid somewhere between $25 and $100 for a calculator construction kit on Mac classic. Purely a purchase of love because it seemed like cool software and I love RPN calculators. I resent the modern attitude that paying for software is an undue burden.
• coldtea 3y ago
  >Historical note: Photoshop cost $895 in 1990, which is more than $2,100 today. I know. I've used it for decades. But $2100 for Photoshop - a professional working tool - even today, is way more justified than $100 for a "minimalist text editor" (or $120/year subscription for same). Not to mention you can get Photoshop+Lightroom+1TB storage for the same exact yearly subscription price. If it wasn't a piece of software but something like a barebones plastic spatula sold for $100, people would just laugh it off. But because it's software and intangible we can mystify the end product and pretend like there aren't some much more realistic prices one would expect it to be sold at, and it's "all about demand". In other words, we bring in some of the mystification from the fashion industry, where the same t-shirt (materials, labour, design, etc wise) costs $10 in some outlet and $200 in another because it has a different brand name attached to it.