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please explain the new business model to me
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “the fact that adobe decided they could make that social decision for millions of creatives is deeply problematic.”
Is this your alter ego responding?
– Oliver
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Did I adore walking into the rental tools room? You wipe only a single tear sure.
No one pops balloons when you walk into Shanatanyu rent your tools town.What they mostly seem to do is ask you for the rent. Adobe’s only concern now is asking for their rental money.
Google looks for advertising, adobe opted for tenants.
They looked to co-opt customers into tenants because they realised they were broadly sociopathic as a corporate group and they felt the social wound opening.https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “Adobe’s only concern now is asking for their rental money”
Well…… In fairness they are working at a very fast development pace. Probably more than any other developer except Blackmagic Design. They are certainly offering a lot of value for that rental.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[John Rofrano] “I could not find that anywhere on their site back when I needed it (last year) and I looked as hard as I could.”
It’s right here and has been since it began: https://creative.adobe.com/plans
[John Rofrano] “I wanted to subscribe to InDesign just for the 4 months that my son needed it for school and I couldn’t find any way to do that.”
As Walter mentioned, education plans are not offered monthly but are so heavily discounted for the year, you still make out in the end.
HTH,
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I just wanted to make sure anyone reading the thread would have no clue where I stood on CC.
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[Dennis Radeke] “It’s right here and has been since it began: https://creative.adobe.com/plans“
Slightly off the subject… but can you pay for months or years in advance? Like John said, he originally only needed ID for four months. It would be nice to be able to pay for three or five years up front. A ten year subscription with a 10% loyalty discount would be even better. Maybe you could pass that along, if you happen to meet with the CFO at some point. 🙂
Shawn
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yeah. i do it as a yearly onetime payment. It’s simpler – it just means you need to think about it for a few weeks beforehand, bung the money and then forget about it for the next 11 months.
If I had the option I strongly suspect I’d do two years in one go. Then it’s even less to think about. As a tenant it’s basically a slightly more reliable lease term.
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[Oliver Peters] ”
Well…… In fairness they are working at a very fast development pace. Probably more than any other developer except Blackmagic Design. They are certainly offering a lot of value for that rental.
“Second part of this negates the value of the first, my friend. If Blackmagic can sustain the same development pace as Adobe using a different business model – it tells us that the Adobe model is not the only viable one. So it makes their decision to go forced rental as a business CHOICE – which is their right.
It’s also our right as customers to judge that choice.
I also have to take issue with my dear friend Walters contention that market forces will be effective at constraining Adobe management from going too far in seeking incremental sales growth via price increases. In the modern era (the last 50 years, say) what happens when terrible executive decisions seriously damage a large company? The answer is that the senior management teams walk away from the smoking ruins with huge severance checks and pats on the back for taking one for the team (the institutional investor class) and take a few weeks on St. Kits before their next gig. Their is no taint of failure if you can make a case that you failed trying to squeeze out more profits. We see that constantly in modern business. The only ones who are exposed to the risks are the line employees who are getting by paycheck to paycheck. That’s modern capitalism – like it or not.
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Nice distinction right in the last two posts.
Paul is excited to be picked up by a powerful corporate giant who specifies the tools and practices he will use to create their content.
Jim is excited to be enabled to pick and choose the tools that resonate with him and is delighted to be able to use what he wants, when he wants to create his own content.
Two clear and distinct aproches evolving from the different business models.
Pick one and get to work!
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[Aindreas Gallagher] ” As a tenant it’s basically a slightly more reliable lease term.”
Definitely. I’m not wild about the subscription only model, but if I had the choice, I would rather hedge against inflation as much as possible by subscribing as far into the future as I could.
Shawn
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