Adobe shooting itself in the foot with high EU prices?

[Bob Crabtree]

Danielle Libine has come up with a well-reasoned analysis of the impact - on customers, company and resellers - of the excessive prices of Adobe software in the EU.

She believes that Adobe is shooting itself in the foot, arguing that high prices are going to have a whole lot of serious repercussions for the company even if the EU itself doesn't investigate Adobe because of the competitive disadvantage at which its pricing puts European creatives against rivals in the USA.

Find out more, then tell us how you feel about the pricing differentials between the EU and the USA.

[tickedon]

Regardless of what the EULA or whatever says, I'll be buying my electronic copy from the USA. Adobe must be crazy to think we would pay so much more than the USA. I'm all for supporting the local Adobe office, but, this takes the p*ss imo.

The hardware market is pretty fair these days in terms of pricing in the states and here, why isn't software like that? I can understand some increased costs for translating software, but, not to the extent we're seeing from Adobe.

[Dorza]

Regardless of what the EULA or whatever says, I'll be buying my electronic copy from the USA. Adobe must be crazy to think we would pay so much more than the USA. I'm all for supporting the local Adobe office, but, this takes the p*ss imo.

The hardware market is pretty fair these days in terms of pricing in the states and here, why isn't software like that? I can understand some increased costs for translating software, but, not to the extent we're seeing from Adobe.

In protest at their pricing I wouldn't give them a penny, be it in $ or £.

[Gordy]

How to make people pirate your software

Step 1. Charge the earth for it
Step 2. Double the cost for anyone not in the good ole US of A
Step 3. Treat customers like idiots and claim it cost more to make the same product with no localisations.
Step 4. Erm pirate??

[Gordy]

The hardware market is pretty fair these days in terms of pricing in the states and here, why isn't software like that? I can understand some increased costs for translating software, but, not to the extent we're seeing from Adobe.

The english version of all the adobe products is exactly the same worldwide there is no US or UK differences in the languages. So they have no extra costs for that version.

Someone else did a very good step by step analysis with the same english version across the world and it was a shocking difference especially compared to other software companies.