AmbientShade posted at 3:40PM Thu, 15 August 2019 - #4359517

That stranglehold is made possible by their customers. Every one of their customers have the option to buy Corel or any number of other graphics editing software, or use the free gimp, krita, etc. They choose not to, because for whatever reason they prefer Adobe. And for a lot of those folks that reason is because $20 a month is much more affordable than $500+ up front. And holding on to CS 5 is fine. I still have CS4 (which I never use anymore because 2018/19 is superior in just about every way), for now but eventually it will no longer function in the latest OS, which you will also eventually be forced to upgrade to when other software you want or need to use requires it, or when that old winXP etc system dies.

LOL — I'm on a Mac, running 10.10 (which isnt that old, thank you very much), and both the machine and the program are in fine shape. By the time that needed upgrade comes along, I will be long dead, thanks for asking. FWIW, I do most of my business work on a laptop running 10.6, and it too can handle any- and everything I need. The latest OS is not always worth it, and Mac hasnt put out a decent OS upgrade in years. It's all bells and whistles with things that dont even remotely affect the large percentage of their user base.

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