And on this point–to Voltmer’s credit, she acknowledged that the 12-year-old, credit-less techie (who may have pirated past Adobe products) is a market that the company was regrettably failing to serve. You know, before (auto)billing them over and over again (as it’s definitely worth noting, you do need to commit to a full year of service upon signup). What if, instead of digging through torrents and message boards full of serials and cracks, you could use Photoshop, right this second, for $20? Who of credit-card-bearing age wouldn’t do that? Because as much as we can all figure out that that’s $240/year for the rest of our lives, Adobe is repositioning their most basic apps into impulse-buy territory–they’re not shunning pirates they’re welcoming cheapskates in as fervently as possible.
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And if Adobe makes the slightest missteps, suddenly they can lose out on tens (or even hundreds?) of millions in revenue to a wasted upgrade cycle. The catch is, our digital world moves faster than ever. To sell users on a new $800+ software suite, they need to bank on the new, crucial features we’ll need years in advance. But I can look at what happened with Flash, a once-integral Adobe-owned and backed technology that’s now virtually extinct. Adobe Can’t Guarantee Necessary Software Features.Īdobe wouldn’t share its global sales numbers, so I can’t speak to the general ups and downs of the software.In moving us to subscriptions, Adobe has converted every regular user into the most loyal customer possible–the type who buys any new company product, whether it’s needed or not. Adobe Will Make More Money This Way (Short Term).Here are the other reasons that I think drove Adobe to this decision that went unsaid:
Much of this makes sense, but I still don’t believe it’s the full story.