Penguinisto posted at 12:18PM Fri, 27 December 2019 - #4374668

Subscriptions are quite hostile to the hobbyist/consumer, and they (Adobe) are fully aware of that. However, the hobbyist isn't Adobe's target market, and their target market (SME/Corps) don't care because they can have their AP department handle that. But the biggest reason is that they don't have to dork with upgrades and/or massive CapEx with each new version. This is the process whereupon you have to go to the beancounters and beg for a big chunk of cash to buy version $latest, have to justify it, have to get RFQ/RFP bids from resellers, have to wait for a PO, and generally blow a lot of time and headache just to upgrade once in awhile. Subs are way easier, and the BSA audits go just that much easier as a bonus if you ever get hit with one...

Spot on. I remember having to make do with Photoshop 6 when I was in college (2003-2006) when I had I think Photoshop CS2 at home - or it was CS, I remember it wasn't even the latest. But yeah that was graphics design college and we had all very old versions of everything in our study computers. Likely because the professors couldn't convince administration of the large expense to upgrade.

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