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by coldtea 3624 days ago
>Adobe's new subscription model for Photoshop, makes it expensive for non-professionals. GIMP looks more attractive now for occasional photo editing.

As opposed to its $800+ asking price before that? It's now $10 per month for Photoshop and Lightroom, so $120 per year.
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Lio 3624 days ago
The biggest turn off for me about Adobe products is that they certainly used to charge me more (almost twice as much at one point) for exactly the same product that they were selling in the USA.

When what you're buying is a download from the same server, with the same internationalisation and features, that sticks in your throat a bit.

When good enough (for me) competition became available in the form of Pixelmator and Affinity I stopped using Adobe products completely.

Things might be better with the subscription pricing but I don't want to be dependent on Adobe again. For my business I could always claim the price back as an expense, it's more the principle of not tolerating gouging.

IMHO no other US company has been as bad at price gouging EU customers as Adobe.

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elbrownos 3624 days ago
> IMHO no other US company has been as bad at price gouging EU customers as Adobe.

They gouged Australians even worse!

http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/it-is-cheaper-to-fly...

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tambourine_man 3624 days ago
Upgrade price for Photoshop alone was a lot less. And you could run it for years (forever[1] in fact, if you count emulation), as a lot of people did.

[1] Latest New Yorker Cover was Created in Photoshop 3.0 on Mac OS 7 (http://gizmodo.com/5059533/latest-new-yorker-cover-was-creat...)

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