[anon4]

Adobe (and others) are in a tight spot called "how do we keep selling our product when we've achieved almost-100% market saturation".

A sort of silver lining is that with the rentier model companies will have an interest to produce more reliable products, rather than ones which break exactly one day after the warranty ends.

[ocdtrekkie]

Not just 100% market saturation, but often "no real reason to upgrade". Adobe CS2 is actually offered for free download off Adobe's website, and it does 98% of what anyone needs Creative Suite for anyways. The biggest problem is it doesn't recognize some features of newer Creative Suite files, like folders of layers in Photoshop.

I have a Photoshop CS5 license, and I can't ever conceive of any reason I'd pay for CC. I have gotten my money's worth out of Photoshop CS5, and I'll continue to get that value, but I don't use Photoshop nearly enough to ever justify a monthly cost.

[anonymousab]

I think that they host CS2 for the sake of letting existing license holders continue using the software, and public access is just an obvious side effect iirc.

[tonyedgecombe]

Hopefully you are right, certainly previously the incentive was to add new features to drive upgrades, often to the detriment of the product as a whole.