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Awesome. Probably going this route soon. It's time to upgrade from CS4...
Now that is a cool service!
Far more reasonable than the insane price they charged.
Looks amazing! but how you get the $29.00 price? For existing customer, it's $29.99.
Hmm it includes web hosting too. I wonder how good it is.
That's how I got it, I have CS5.
Im probably going to stay at CS5
Cool, Adobe is being a bit more reasonable (now if they only would continue supporting flash on android...). I do wonder if this will end up making them more money than their prior business model.
FTFY:
Now if only flash would die
@topic:
I think Adobe is gonna make more money with a reasonable leasing model, people who simply couldn't afford the 1000€ to buy their producs can now easily rent them for 30/month.
Still really expensive if you don' t have a key from a previous version, and I only use two programs out of all of those >.>
I don't really have a problem with flash. For the most part flash is only used for videos now, and most videos are H.264 encoded, so the difference between flash and HTML5 isn't going to be much...
Flash is simply kind of "outdated" and definately not "state of the art". Furthermore it's a proprietary file format. HTML5 is the future
@CINIPAC Agreed. Adobe has dropped the ball with Flash so many times. Recent and upcoming changes are absolutely appropriate to keep it relevant, but it bothers me how long it took them to consider HTML 5 as a threat to the platform. It bothers me that a threat is what it took to begin optimizing it to modern standards. I'm more than ready to see Flash gone, though it will be long time before the word is removed from our vocabulary.
I'm curious to know what you mean by outdated?
Actually it's most used for ads imho. Whenever i use a friend's PC without adblock im astonished by the amount of flash ads and how people can cope with them
It does get used a lot for ads, I guess I never notice them b/c I'm using an adblocker. But I was more talking about youtube, and other video sites.
I think this just how it is for most businesses. Look at Microsoft with Windows Vista. They dropped the ball, got hit hard because of it, and bam Windows 7. Then look at the mobile OS market, it took a competitor (iOS), for smartphone manufacturers to realize "wow our crappy firmware sucks".
I disagree, I don't think Flash is outdated at all, and it definitely is state of the art, considering the HTML 5 spec offers no real advantage over Flash (except that it's an HTML standard). It is a proprietary format, but look at H.264, it might be a standardized, but so is Flash essentially. Flash isn't going to change radically where developers are like "Great all my work is broken and needs a rewrite". But look at the issue of needing licenses for H.264, yet it's accepted and incorporated into HTML5.
I read that when Steve Jobs died, his whole life HTML5'd before his eyes.
I think his whole life H.264'd before his eyes.
Wow, even if you pay the full price $50 per month that's an awesome deal.
There will most likely be specials floating around to bring this down too.
I really like Photoshop CS6, finally I can move the app around and all the menus follow.
Great price, gonna signup this month.
Guys... we dont even pay this much for Windows.
@Corey probably because MS Paint and Windows movie maker aren't quite up for comparison
Um. You sure? 'Cause HTML5 videos take far less RAM (and CPU) on my Linux box than Flash videos do. Put quite simply, Flash is just a complete piece of shit, and it's a proprietary format as noted which means there are no other options. With HTML5, how many options do you have? You have as many as support it, which is a ton.
But Windows (or any mature OS) is far more complex and took far more man-hours to code, not to mention support and fix (or do the little bit that Microsoft does of those two that is).
@jarland doesn't really matter - let's see adobe write an OS kernel for us that is completely new. Windows probably spends more man hours developing their OS than adobe does on their line of 100 products.... I mean really adobe... why 100 products? Some of these products features can be combined into others, and some products have repeat features.
+1 @ DimeCadmium
@Corey Didn't think you were serious
but I don't think you can compare the price of two entirely different products with two entirely different release cycles, update cycles, and function. This is cheaper than a non student purchasing a new creative suite every year. Depending on your industry, owning it can become more of a requirement than an option. While there are certainly viable alternatives and valid arguments against the existence of some of their applications, they are currently setting the industry standard for a lot of people, and this was a positive move toward a more reasonable price structure.