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[hazelnut]

Adobe moves to cloud versions only

http://news.cnet.com...scription-only/

[DennisD]

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Instead of revenue surging when upgrades such as CS6 arrive, the company gets a steady stream of money.

This is what it's all about isn't it.

A never ending stream of money. Damn, there's the cynic in me appearing again.

[Winapp2.ini]

If I had to imagine, I'd say yes. They also probably think it'll cut down on piracy (it probably wont)

[Alan_B]

Clouds will fall out of the sky if they have to carry the dead weight of Adobe Bloat.

[rridgely]

I actually think this is neat. It says you can pay $10 a month for individual programs. For kids, hobbyists, and students that's awesome if they just want to learn photoshop. Businesses probably won't care either way they make tons of money using these programs. Plus you get free updates which is huge because the old system had expensive upgrades.

[Winapp2.ini]

Alan_B, on 07 May 2013 - 02:02 PM, said:

Clouds will fall out of the sky if they have to carry the dead weight of Adobe Bloat.

Want Adobe Photoshop and nothing else? You'll also need to install Bridge, Download Manager, Help, Help Browser, Media Manager, Utilities, Widget Browser.....

[Keatah]

Maybe we could have a lightweight version of Photoshop for single-user use. I thought Photoshop elements would fit, but it got bloated too.

I don't care how popular cloud distros and subscriptions might be. I dislike it all the way around.

[Andavari]

Winapp2.ini, on 07 May 2013 - 04:32 PM, said:

Want Adobe Photoshop and nothing else? You'll also need to install Bridge, Download Manager, Help, Help Browser, Media Manager, Utilities, Widget Browser.....

Surprised they don't require a whole huge hard disk labelled "Adobe" to fit the bloat onto.

[Corona]

I have Photoshop 4.5.
Easy peasy.

[hazelnut]

Looks like the file syncing part of Creative Cloud is broken already and has been suspended for a couple of weeks while they sort it out

http://www.theregist..._cloud_problem/

[Keatah]

I got cs2 and couldn't be happier.

While this is a non-event, it is why I dislike cloud products. The cloud is alright as a delivery service, that's been proven the past 25 years. But as a way to allow people (the programmers at adobe) to play with your files on your computer everyday I don't like it. Never will..


ADDED:
I never was a proponent of all your information across all your devices. Seamlessly. Reminds me of those motorola products promoting a seamless world in the early 2000's. Whatever happened to that?

Sorry peeps. I can't stand cloud stuff.