AbrasiveReducer

In some areas, your condo might increase in value enough to offset the increase in maintainence fees.

You're being a little unfair. You get to live in your condo, or sell it and you might even sell it for more than you paid for it.

I keep my DVDs in a safe deposit box to prevent the true owners from ceasing or de-activating them.

I keep my DVDs in a safe deposit box to prevent the true owners from confiscating or de-activating them.

Agreed. But a lot of this debacle could have been avoided if they had been honest and said "You whiners who don't buy every version of everything we produce (even before the bugs are out) are just...

With all due respect, you can trust or not trust an individual but corporations aren't people. Trusting a corporation to do the right thing, regardless of the bottom line, is crusin' for a brusin'.

It's not for anyone here to decide how much money Adobe should be allowed to make. On the other hand, they are not owed a guaranteed stream of income. For that, they need to buy an annuity.

Asinine as this new Adobe scheme is, I worry about personifying a company. I don't love Adobe, hate Adobe or plan to sue for mental cruelty. It's a company, they want more money and I'm not going...

Adobe needs to be profitable but they may not be. They are not entitled to a profit guarantee and that's why stocks go up and down.

This idea that, if someone is naughty and copies Adobe software...

There may actually bit a bit of a parallel with Kodak. While it's true that Kodak has exceptionally inept management, a big reason for EK's demise is that you no longer have to keep buying...

Alas, Adobe knows this. They know that most of the new features are solutions looking for a problem so if the consumer doesn't see the value in buying the newest version it's game over. Unless...

Obviously (or not) I was kidding. DPR's point is that the reaction to Adobe's new scheme has been so overwhelmingly negative that it might help to have users choose the aspect they dislike the most.

It may be that customer response has been too subtle for Adobe to detect dissatisfaction, but they have done a zillion surveys asking why don't you want to subscribe so my guess is they already...

Something like Photoshop, but with NIK's color control points would be so easy and fast, people would forget Photoshop ever existed.

What made Photoshop the crown jewel of Adobe products was that its broad appeal and utility to all types of users. But Adobe has decided to jettison a large segment of those users. The other...

What made Photoshop the crown jewel of Adobe products was that its broad appeal and utility to all types of users. But Adobe has decided to jettison a large segment of those users. The other...

I think it's a nice portrait. He looks wise and calm. The photos that get me are the pics of Ives, who always seems to be in pain or about to cry.

Adobe may not learn anything from this but I have. Thom Hogan has an acronym "YAMP" which is Yet Another Monthly Payment. Obviously, this is no concern to mega corporations, but it's the little...

No rage; actually glad to be saving some money not buying future versions of Photoshop, which I use less and less due to LR.

What puzzles me is that somewhere in Adobe, someone tallied all the surveys and realized customers weren't buying it. So they did the sensible corporate thing--they sent more surveys. But there...