Monday, May 13, 2013

Sign the Adobe Anti-Subscription Petition

Sign the Adobe Systems Incorporated: Eliminate the mandatory "creative cloud" subscription model petition! Adobe is moving to a subscription only model for its revenue, and I believe it will greatly reduce, if not eliminate, Adobe's incentives to improve its software. If they don't have to create improved versions to keep consumers buying their upgrades, then what is their incentive to improve the product? There's no real competition to Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver. Software engineering staff at Adobe make six figure salaries -- what's to keep executive staff from seeing the obvious financial model that they don't need as many engineers on staff since there's no potential revenue increase in adding a new feature or fixing an old bug? It's an employment disaster for Adobe employees.