I WISH I could spend over $100 a month on going out alone (since you're insinuating it's $39 a few times). That's over $800 a year aside from food costs, general living costs, school, ect.
$40 per student per month is very costly.
No it's not . . . . college students need to realize that not everything is FREE! Take it from a former one, and one that teaches at one now. You spend $2000+ on the Macbook Pro and more on books and so forth and so on. You have to make a choice and budget correctly . . . . you know . . . grow up.
Seriously not trying to be a smart-butt. I used to pirate software myself, but then I grew up and realized how pathetic it really is.
Can't wait for someone come in and take all the business away from Adobe. Please anyone.
Adobe's improvements are small, the updated prices are stupid high. Time from us to stop using their upgrades.
Adobe has been putting out some serious updates lately. I am on CS4 and have been using CS5.5 at my job and notice a good deal of improvements on the video apps end. CS6 adds a good deal more under the hood improvements, especially some that allow users of lower powered systems (MBPs and iMacs) to get things done faster.
Basically, they see the trend. How everyone is moving from big iron systems like the MacPro down to iMacs and 17" MBPs.
A friend of mine just forked out $1000+ for InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator. Decided it was time to 'get on the upgrade path' with Adobe: spend now to get upgrade pricing later. He bought late enough he'll be getting CS6 upgrades for free, so he's happy.
I asked him why he didn't go for Creative Cloud, and he said he wanted to 'own' his software and update when it suited him. I get it. In work I use CS5 but at home I have my own, fully legal, copy of CS3. There is nothing new in CS5 I need so I stick with CS3 at home, and most likely will do until a version of OS X comes along that breaks CS3. However, I'm on that upgrade path.
(Let me be clear here and say I'm referring to Design Premium in this post. I don't have any knowledge on the video side of things)
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Me? I'll keep using FW CS3 till Sketch can replace it, and boot up PS CS3 as I need it, maybe even buy Pixelmator since I don't do CMYK. InDesign CS3 will be fine for the odd page layout I do these days. For a second, the low price of Creative Cloud looked really enticing, then I remembered exactly how much of the Creative Suite actually use these days 😀
Very good post and it brings to light that not everyone needs the hammer that is CS. I had a boss that bought the Master Collection and couldn't touch over 3/4 of the apps. He was genius, but not a creative one. He wasted his cash.
The question is will the new C6 products allow users to actually select what gets installed? I recall with Photoshop CS5 that if you selected only the Photoshop core component that it would still install Adobe Air, Bridge and some other items. The icing on the cake was that it would then also install Growl.
This led me to trashing Adobe products completely from my OS X install and instead using it in a VM dedicated for Photoshop/Illustrator related work.
I've never had to do this, and certain apps like Bridge and Air are essential and built heavily into PS. Bridge at one point was just a feature of PS before it became a stand alone application. Air is probably for reading the instructions or for the "tip of the day." I've never had to install Growl. Not at all and I've been putting CS on systems since the first CS came to market.
.... and I sill wouldn't pay that much.
Then I seriously doubt you need it. I would NEVER pay $4000 for AutoCad . . . the great part is that I don't have to because I don't need it. People that pirate software because they are too cheap or too immature to pay for it are an enigma to me.
People will pay for everything else, including whatever vice they have, but wouldn't even shell out a penny for a piece of high end software. Would rather steal something they don't need. As for the Cloud, I seem to recall people paying more for their cell phones.
It's like people don't want to pay for Adobe software because it's the standard, they think they need it, and it should be given out for free, or should be $399 for the Master Collection. Cloud makes it easy to get all of the apps without having to shell out $800-$2599 and now it's ludicrous . . . even though an iPhone on AT&T is $129 per month base.
The only people that have a real complaint are people in the UK . . . $4000 for the master collection is robbery.
