i was thinking about that. it's closer to what, $300 for an upgrade? but i don't think this pricing model is geared towards current customers. seems to me adobe garners much customer loyalty after the initial purchase. i know i've been hooked on photoshop and premiere pro for years now.

I think that is just brilliant. Sometimes I have to do a one-time job in Flash or the like, so picking it up for a month for that price would be awesome.

Why would you want to rent a program instead of buying it? Maybe you've got an older version of the software and need something newer for the short term, maybe you're strapped for cash, maybe you just occasionally need particular programs and don't see a need to pay for more than you'll use. There are plenty of good reasons to rent a program like this instead of making do without it — or without dealing with a potentially buggy or shady pirated version.

I'll pass and download it instead.

I love the idea.

I have a lap top I only use when flying and didn't want to buy yet another license. If I need to use PS when I am away where I fly too, (maybe once a year for a few days) I pay $35. All other locations I go to have my own PCs with PS loaded and waiting for me.

In 7 in 8 years I will have paid for a cheap license but this way I get 7 or 8 free upgrades along the way.

Brilliant.

Depends how badly people feel that they MUST have the latest version.

I wish Adobe would show a bit more appreciation for people who have purchased a lot of their products. I have bought a lot of Adobe software packages over the years, but, if I want to get their biggest bundled package now, they will only consider an upgrade price from one of the individual packages I have purchased. This seems disrespectful to the loyal customer. The fact that they advertise the subscription to those not eligible for proper upgrades seems to indicate they know this is a problem with their upgrade structure.

their facebook product page echos similar sentiment

...i like mashed yams :)

is it going to be like office how they have a cached version? so the software isnt actually on your pc, it needs online to operate

Agree...

This is aimed to big corporation , that prefer to account for a fixed cost ... needless to say, they will negotiate a lower monthly fee.
Then, according to their needs, licenses will be shared by new users inside that corp, as they need them ....

At that price, I agree, it should be pay to own, not rent. Rent should be lower and by quite a bit.
WG

From the US users' point of view, the price may be too steep, but international versions distributed worldwide often are nearly twice as costly as the US market versions. So for international markets this offer doesn't look quite as bad.

That is good to hear. Maybe they will eventually take these concerns more seriously.

That makes zero sense. Where can you lease a car if you aren't insured?

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The deal was 3 years on a brand new car with included all servicing and maintainance and insurance. All left to pay for was petrol.

Didn't have any loading on the included insurance for me being young + high mileage + business use. Insurance is compulsory here and young drivers especially get absolutely raped on pricing.

From the way it read on the site, it's the same software but with a temporary license that expires after a month.

Kind of funny how they are moving toward a monthly subscription model and adult is moving away from it.

Interesting trend

still thats cheap, compared to buying creative suite master collection which is close to 3k i think.

looks like a great deal to me...

$35/month for a Photoshop is nothing...
that's great piece of software

Web based Photoshop type program for free... http://pixlr.com/editor/

Intuit is now offering the same type of monthly payment "subscription" for Quick Books.

http://quickbooksonline.intuit.com/b...nting-systems/
http://quickbooks.intuit.com/pro-apps/

It's $195 / month for Master Collection.

hmmmm, let me see: save the money for 3/4 months and have a full PS copy or pay a monthly subscription? decisions decisions :helpme

for those that didn't get it, it's WAY overpriced. If you pay month to month for PS extended, in 6 months you pay MORE than the educational price for THE WHOLE creative suite. And even the 1-year-commit is retarded, who will be so idiotic to pay $420 for a 1 year subscription FOR PHOTOSHOP ONLY when you can get the full version, completely legal for almost the same price? :Oh crap

It's a great idea... for adobe.

If you can't afford to pay $500 for a one time purchase for software then you really can't afford $35 a month for ever. It's the people with the mentality "I can't afford $500 but I can spring an extra $35" that will bury themselves in monthly debt. If you can't scrap up or at worst save up $500 over a couple months then you can't afford to bury yourself deeper each month by increasing your monthly expenses.

This would be different if it was "financed" and lets say you had to pay $35 a month for 18 months , and then you own it. In that case, all it cost you was a little interest and you got to spread it out, but a recurring membership deal that never ends. You going to lose big time on that one and wind up paying 2,3,4,5x more in the long run.

Only exception would be to do the membership for 1 or 2 months to try out the software to make sure you like it or if it is exactly what you need or if you need it now but will have money in 1-2 months and will buy it then.

I also don't see it as any incentive to get people to not want to use boot legged copies.

I agree, $19.95 would have been a much better price point and they could have suckered more people in to it that way and still made much more money for adobe over the long run.

adult is moving away from it? news to me. Maybe customers are not falling for it and more or just not buying at all because they can get it for free, but I haven't noticed a move by program owners to stop offering it and trying to sell one time / life time access.

Not sure if it's been posted, but Photoshop is $50/month. It's only $35/month if you a buy a year in advance.

the full version of photoshop is $999 and more than that in Europe, so $39 isnt bad if thats the global price, I bet Euros will have to pay more though, fuckers always do that.

which software is freeware and equivalent to PS? Don't tell me GIMP :)

the most absurd thing about photoshop and adobe products in general is their european pricing.
If you order from adobe.com, photoshop costs say $1000 if you pick country as USA, or 1000eur if you pick it as poland...

Those prices you listed appear to be the upgrade editions, what does a non-upgrade, non-educational copy, run at in the US, $600-700?

In the UK you can pick it up for around £600 which is around $980.

I paid nearly $AUD1000 for CS2 (full vers, no mucking around with trying to do a dodgy so I can get student pricing), which back then was about $USD650-700...

Photoshop is overpriced because it's the defacto standard. There's nothing really that special about it.

Always love it when people start name calling over absolutely nothing, shows your class.

Anyway, full version PS is $700 last I checked, so that is 2 years of $35 subscription. Plus any upgraded version is $200 extra but with the $35 subscription you get automatic updates.

Were you in Rochard's maths class?

lol 20 months, big deal.

What people are not picking up on here, is it's called CLOUD COMPUTING ... You do not install photoshop on your system, nor do you get any CDs with the Photoshop software on them ...

Your $45 a month entails you to a login to the cloud ... that's it!
You will need an active broadband connection at all times while using the software - there is not working offline.

For what it is, yes $49 per month (or even $35 monthly on the annual plan) is very dear ...

Eventually all applications will move to the cloud ... The writing is already on the wall, and there are many advantages for software producers/providers. It all but eliminates software piracy (a booming multi BILLION dollar business), and it means that anybody can use applications on any architecture - be it a netbook, iPad, tablet, or smartphone - regardless of how much RAM or what speed processor you have ... the actual application runs on clusters in the cloud.

The problem with charging exorbitant fees for access to cloud applications, is that these fees add up. You need to pay $60 a month for your broadband connection, $49 for access to Photoshop, another $49 for Flash, another $29 for access to Dreamweaver, maybe $10-20 a month for your online storage locker...

If you want to be a web designer, its going to cost you $200 a month before you even turn your computer on!!

On a positive note, as physical software is weaned out, it will level the playing fields by getting rid of all the kids in mommy's basement with a cracked photoshop torrent, but I still think Adobe is missing the mark here. The profits in the recurring payment business model, is not in how much you charge per month, but how many monthly subscriptions you can sell ...

Adobe would stand to make far better money by bringing a monthly Photoshop subscription down to $9.99 per month, and turning all of the pirated version users into recurring LEGAL clients!!

No. It isn't cloud computing. You download the product and install it. You don't need an active broadband connection at all times!

OK ... I stand corrected, this model is not yet in the cloud, but I do know that Adobe has been working on putting their software into the cloud as a way to eliminate piracy for some time now.

I guess CS5.5 will be a crossover between the tangible goods version, and a full out cloud app.