Hi!~
Adobe is coming up with new service call Adobe Creative Cloud whereby you can pay to use the software whenever you need to use the software. Monthly subscription required-around US$ 50 per month. My main question to the users of Corel and all die hard fans of Corel is how this will effect the users and artists of Corel world? Will new artist jump to use Adobe instead of Corel? What are the strength and weakness of cloud service? And strategically lets guess what would be Corel next move? I think this would be fun. What say ye?
This is part of a press release from here in Australia:
"Adobe Creative Cloud membership will be available to customers in 36 countries and in multiple languages. Pricing for Creative Cloud membership for individuals is US$49.99 per month based on annual membership and US$74.99 per month for month-to-month membership. A special introductory offer of US$29.99 per month for CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS5.5 individual customers is also available."
http://www.imagemagazine.com.au/Image%20Magazine%20News/News-2012/April-2012/407-Online-News-27-April-2012/Adobe-launches-cloud-based-CS6.aspx
Approx $600 per install per year. My CorelDraw upgrade cost me on average $150/yr ($300 every 2/yrs)
For one year of Adobe, it will costs 4 times what it costs me for a CorelDraw upgrade.
I see no downside for Adobe. Plenty of downside for the small end user.
A small graphics shop with say 3 workstations - $1 800/yr
A larger shop with 10 workstations - $6 000/yr
And $75/mth for the tire kickers
Sorry, but nothing I have read about this has me wanting to rush out and sign up.