Originally Posted by
Saracen
The key thing for me, be it Adobe or MS, or anybody else is choice.
I have absolutely no problem with a subsvription model being available for those that prefer it, a la Office 365 ....provided those that don't prefer it still have the 'buy and pay once' option.
Why?
For me, the decision to buy or not is about, on one side, my evaluation of the current/future benefifs of the current version, and on the other side, cost. In part, this is because I don't automatically upgrade.
I'm still on Office 2010 (on my Win7 systems), because it does all I need. Why pay out month after month, or year after year,
Even worse is Photoshop. If I have a project, I might use it intensively for a week or three, then not touch it for 6 months. Why keep paying out?
On the other hand, a family member uses it a fair bit all the time and subscribes. For them, sub works. For me, emphatically not.
My issue with Adobe is lack of choice, and with MS, it's the roadsigns suggesting they're travelling the same road. Eventually. That's why I took the Linux road instead, and have yet to regret it or miss MS.