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Photo Ewen 📷<p>For years people have smirked at my suggestion that subscription pricing was as good a reason as any to stay away from Adobe. Customers held to ransom with price changes.</p><p>The only thing I needed from Adobe back then was InDesign, and Affinity Publisher solved that for me very nicely. And very cheaply. When I cancelled, Adobe stung me for an extra 12 months as an exit fee.</p><p>Thus, I have never used an Adobe product since.</p><p><a href="https://photog.social/tags/Adobe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Adobe</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/SubscriptionPricing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SubscriptionPricing</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Affinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Affinity</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.pcworld.com/article/2788602/adobe-will-charge-you-more-for-creative-cloud-in-june-because-ai.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pcworld.com/article/2788602/ad</span><span class="invisible">obe-will-charge-you-more-for-creative-cloud-in-june-because-ai.html</span></a></p>
Max Leibman has moved!<p>A major reason I am comfortable with subscription pricing in software is that continuing development has a cost. Do you want new features, bug fixes, security patches, or even just continued compatibility as OS vendors change the underlying system? A subscription pays the developer to do that ongoing work. </p><p>But Duet's continuing development removed the feature I bought it for, and also seemed to be asking me to buy a second subscription. <br> <br> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DuetDisplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuetDisplay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SubscriptionPricing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SubscriptionPricing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WiredXDisplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WiredXDisplay</span></a></p>