View single post by KirkP

Posted: Fri May 11th, 2012 16:14

Joined:	Thu May 10th, 2012
Location:	Colorado USA
Posts:	21
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Adobe really screwed the pooch with this whole idea. For pros, this makes no sense, unless you're buying the entire CS suite of products. For Photoshop CS6 alone, it's $20 US for a US IP address (not sure what it costs in the UK) and updates are free til the next version, CS7. $240 a year for the Cloud, two years is $480. Upgrade from CS5 is $199, again not entire sure how much more UK upgrade price is, but if past comments on the old forum are any indication, UK or Spanish prices will be 20% more.

And if you upgrade normally, from CS3, 4 or 5, you still get the x.5 update like they did with CS5.5, for free. I'm not seeing any benefit for anyone, except Adobe. $200 vs almost $500 ?????? And that assumes they release CS7 at two years from now, which was stated as the new product cycle when CS5 came out. I have no confidence that will remain at two years.

Lastly, a new issue just popped up today, two critical vulnerabilities in Photoshop CS5.5, along with vulnerabilities in Illustrator and Flash Pro. Adobe won't be issuing a bug fix for CS5.5, you have to pay for the upgrade to CS6.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227099/Adobe_Pay_upgrade_price_to_patch_critical_bugs

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/photoshop-illustrator-users-must-pay-for-critical-security-updates/12113

Ok, so maybe Photoshop isn't the first choice of hackers trying to access your computer, but if it exists, and you have to pay for an upgrade, it stands to reason there will be people who won't pay, and thus remain vulnerable. Therefore, someone will figure out how to exploit these vulnerabilities. Thanks, Adobe, for confirming my already low opinion of your business acumen (greed).

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