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The Cloud Wars begin!

Mar 26, 2012 7:54 PM

Categories: clouds, packages, services, users, experience, amazon Tags: #adobe #cs6 #subscription #cloud #upgrades #lightroom_4_video #computing

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Adobe recently announce that “every­one can join the Cre­ative Cloud,” and while cus­tomers will have access to a free mem­ber­ship to explore cer­tain fea­tures, a monthly price of US$50 (based on a one-year sub­scrip­tion) has been set. The idea is that users can access the lat­est ver­sion of Adobe’s pop­u­lar pro­grams (like Pho­to­shop CS6 and Light­room 4), with­out  buy­ing the boxed ver­sion and sub­se­quent upgrades. In addi­tion to receiv­ing updates to the pro­grams as soon as they are released, users also get 20GB of cloud stor­age for sync­ing their work.

 

On Ama­zon, Adobe Pho­to­shop CS5 costs around $639. With a yearly sub­scrip­tion you save about $40. Not an amaz­ing deal if you need to use the soft­ware every day, but you could  “rent” it for $50/month, and only use it when you need to meet a dead­line, and then stop pay­ing while you are work­ing on some­thing else. The idea is good on paper, but I am not com­pletely sold on the ben­e­fits of a sub­scrip­tion sys­tem. Unfor­tu­nately, I believe that there’s no turn­ing back. This is how we will be buy­ing and using soft­ware in the near future.

 

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