Initially, I was planning for this blog entry to be about how I decided to incorporate dot-city into my logo. The more I thought about it, I realized I love to use Adobe Photoshop but I never opted into the subscription model that they now currently offer. I miss the days of being able to buy a software product where I owned the product outright and didn’t have to worry about spending money on it over and over again. Call me old, but that model works in the customer’s favor better, versus the infamous subscription model that every vendor is forcing customers to partake in.
There was a sense of pride being able to buy a tangible product. Obviously, the days of CDs and DVDs are over but the best product purchase I have ever made was Adobe Photoshop CS6. I still own the product in its original packaging to this day and have created countless projects using it. That logo you see above in the top right of my blog was also made with it. I take pride in not only teaching myself how to use Adobe Photoshop at a very young age but I also take pride in being able to gain access to it when I was in my exploratory stage.
See, a great deal of us would never of had the opportunity to use earlier versions of Adobe Photoshop if it hadn’t been for the so called, FREE VERSIONS offered online. When you are young and you barely have enough money to call your own you start to look through other avenues to gain access to what you need. I don’t condone piracy but I do understand it and if it hand’t been for it I would never of gotten the experience that I truly wanted with Adobe Photoshop and not to mention when you get to try before you buy, sometimes you actually buy the product.
In my case, I wanted to buy the product because it had completely changed the way I looked at the digital realm. A piece of software that helps you create is one of the most powerful things you can have access to these days. I really hope Adobe will stop putting profits ahead of impact. You have unlocked the potential of many digital entrepreneurs, but they need your help more than ever lately. Don’t force them to look for old copies of Adobe Photoshop on eBay. Give them the opportunity to earn their own weight to buy your sofware outright. Don’t just offer the subscription model. Bring back the perpetual model and unlock the world’s creativity once again.
As a Sales Engineer, sometimes perpetual pricing is needed. Businesses of all sizes are struggling right now and gouging them with the subscription model doesn’t do any justice for anyone. So say it with me, BRING BACK PERPETUAL PRICING ADOBE! You owe it to the creative community to do so. They are by-far being impacted heavily during these times.