Of all the big corporations to be angry about, I don't see Adobe has a high priority. Credit card companies that charge 15-30% interest in times of 0% interest. (And the actual interest rates are much higher because many will charge interest on the original amount charged even after some of the principle has been paid off!)
Amazon? How many businesses are they disrupting to the point of bankruptcy? It ain't just bookstores anymore. And before Amazon it was good old Walmart.
Big corporate fast-food? Does anybody remember in the USA when diners and independent coffee shops and restaurants of all types were omnipresent in small towns and big cities? Good luck finding a place for breakfast other than crappy fast-food now. Good luck. From coast to coast, America has some of the most consistently awful food in the world. Exceptions are disappearing at a record rate, thanks to Covid.
Entertainment? Pay for cable channels to have nearly 50% of the viewing time commercials. Streaming? Loving it? Oh, yeah, baby, because here come the data caps, big time across the whole USA, with either throttling or very high over-usage fees--unless you pony up to pay about as much as larger cable bills.
And how about taxes? And energy costs?
Ok, CR is a photography forum, so Adobe seems relevant and fair game, but it is pretty ineffective griping about them as a reason to be struggling in an oversaturated field. And with youtube teaching everybody within a few weeks how to get pretty good portraits? Wow, people skills are indispensable, because now you have to find a very successful, extremely busy, discerning, and vein client willing to pay $800 plus for individual and family portraits. Not to mention how cheap it is to get into passable real estate photography, and how easy the basics are to learn. Yes, there are enough "bottom feeder" agents, and lately so much demand, that high-end photographers just don't have much market. School portraits? My state has a couple regional monopolies, and the individual schools aren't allowed to use somebody independent.
That is just the tip of the iceberg.
Now imagine you are working for Adobe or another software company. Would you want your job put on pause between upgrades? Would you prefer to just do temp contract work only while the company prepares a new version? Or would you rather have a steady income, a job you can depend on because of the subscription model? Please see other sides of this issue.
I've had a couple aggravating moments with Creative Cloud, twice when I was 100% locked out of LR CC and Photoshop. It hasn't happened in over 18 months, but for some reason I wasn't connected to the web in my home, and all my Adobe stuff just would not open until I did connect. Maybe a bug, I never found out. But, to put that in perspective, I've had internet outages, power outages in lovely weather, a van battery that died after only three years, "smart" TV's freeze up, a two year old fridge's icemaker crap out...Big freaking deal in a life of utter dependence on technology of one sort or another.
Go ahead, get mad at Adobe for making a profit. Resent the success of others. But I can't imagine it accomplishes anything or makes you feel one bit better.
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