Why are you talking about screens & cars & Apple hardware?
"...just because it's software doesn't change anything"! I see, so that suggests I should be charging Korean-car prices for the dozens of GB of data I send around the world every day, even though all it costs me is a little over €1/day for my cable connection? Hardly comparable with the costs of shipping, rail & road, rent & warehousing etc.
Yes, I DO want to use Adobe software, but I have never yet spent a penny on any of it, despite over 10 years of activity that might have been facilitated with the benefit of Adobe products. In fact, Adobe are already in negative-income territory where I am concerned as their employees (you included?) have already spent a fair amount of salaried time with me to no avail - let alone the scalable return that might be possible from multiple licenses should that first investment prove beneficial to my company. (We have in the meantime developed a unique process stream from a suite of other software, some open-source, others fairly priced, which definitely has proved beneficial).
Maybe Adobe want to appear aloof and inaccessible from outside of the US, but I feel they are missing out on a much larger market footprint by so blatantly offering a middle-finger salute to a lot of potential non-US purchasers.
