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by D13Fd 1911 days ago
Honestly I have no problem with monthly fees for software you use every day, or frequently, for professional use. I'm fine paying monthly for things like Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office, and 1Password. Those are all desktop apps, albeit with a cloud component that I mostly don't use. I easily get my money back 10x over (likely more) based on the income I generate with the apps.

The pricing here seems targeted at media folks who do e-mail creation for a living. Assuming it works well, it's likely a bargain for them as well. But I have to imagine that market is rather small.
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munk-a 1911 days ago
I would say this - 1Password has taken a real dive in quality. If the software was a single upfront cost I'd just shrug it off but the fact that my company is paying to sustain development that's actually ruined the UX for me is quite frustrating.

(Hey 1Password, don't have your "App" open as a little window in the corner of the screen for password entry that instantly closes as soon as I alt-tab anywhere. It takes too many ms for you to render a blank window with a text box to keep my focus on you so I'm going to context switch while you're loading all the libraries you need to support your text box entry form)

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bitlevel 1911 days ago
Consider Bitwarden as a replacement.
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bdathi 1911 days ago
Adobe is shitty.

I only get lightroom in a abo which would be fine if the minimum time would be a month but it is a year.

Best if both worlds for Adobe non for the consumer

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krsdcbl 1911 days ago
If you work with a broad range of their softwares (ps/ai/ae/premiere power user here) the subscription system is awesome. Ends up being cheaper than buying it used to be & much less upfront costs for the business.

They could do better on many aspects but it's nowhere near "shitty".

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omnimus 1911 days ago
Hello Adobe marketing team.

Adobe replaced 600usd a piece software for 80usd subscription. The reason for it was because most people use like two pieces and upgraded once in 5+ years. Why? Because there are essentially no new features that have any value. Especially in print industry its basically ransom thanks to adobe's complete monopoly.

Btw it's not even monthly subscription. You can only get 1year contract that you pay of month by month. If you decide stop after two months you gotta pay rest of that 960usd. Lovely.

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