Photo Ewen 📷May 23, 2025

For years people have smirked at my suggestion that subscription pricing was as good a reason as any to stay away from Adobe. Customers held to ransom with price changes.

The only thing I needed from Adobe back then was InDesign, and Affinity Publisher solved that for me very nicely. And very cheaply. When I cancelled, Adobe stung me for an extra 12 months as an exit fee.

Thus, I have never used an Adobe product since.

#Adobe #SubscriptionPricing #Affinity

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2788602/adobe-will-charge-you-more-for-creative-cloud-in-june-because-ai.html

Adobe will charge you more for Creative Cloud in June, because AI (of course)

Existing All Apps subscribers will be moved to Creative Cloud Pro, a new $70/month plan that includes far more generative AI credits.

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Show threadMax Leibman has moved!Sep 9, 2023

A major reason I am comfortable with subscription pricing in software is that continuing development has a cost. Do you want new features, bug fixes, security patches, or even just continued compatibility as OS vendors change the underlying system? A subscription pays the developer to do that ongoing work.

But Duet's continuing development removed the feature I bought it for, and also seemed to be asking me to buy a second subscription.


#DuetDisplay #SubscriptionPricing #WiredXDisplay

Gik  | 💙➡️🇺🇦Jun 14, 2023

Looks like offering yearly pricing (vs. monthly) turns your app into a supertanker in terms of limiting its agility.

#appFunding #appPricing #subscriptionPricing