Nearly, 23,000 people have signed an online petition urging Adobe to drop its subscription model. Some individual consumers have already begun revolting against Creative Cloud. ![]() Higher education procurement and technology officials worry they will see dramatic price increases because they will have to continuously pay to use Adobe products rather than being able to upgrade only when there is some key new feature their students and faculty members must have. But the change also allows Adobe to access a stable flow of cash from its users who sometimes upgrade only every several years, a purchasing cycle that can create instability for a company. That's a change from traditional software products that were made for users on one device or in one place. ![]() The company pitches the new model as a way for users to access and sync their work from anywhere. Instead of that, Adobe is rolling out a “ Creative Cloud,” which requires users to pay subscription fees as often as every month to use and keep using its products. ![]() The company will stop updating its “perpetual” software, which is software users can buy once and use forever - in other words, the traditional software model most consumers understand. ![]() While colleges have not yet sorted out some of the major issues, the changes by Adobe are already prompting at least a few college officials to say new versions of company's popular creative software will be unaffordable.Īdobe, the maker of Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat and more than a dozen other products, recently changed the way it sells its software. College officials are concerned and confused by new licensing terms from Adobe they fear will dramatically raise costs.
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