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Adobe Considers Withdrawing from Asian Markets
Max Groff writes "This brief ZDNet article (printer-friendly version) describes how Adobe is considering leaving its Asian markets due to the apparently high levels of piracy across the Pacific. This change would not only cut off the marketing of Adobe products to Asian markets, but also halt the development of much of the company's Asian-language software."
Considering that Adobe Photoshop costs $600, I'm not really surprised at this decision. Adobe could have lowered prices for their Asian market, but instead they just took their ball and went home.
Can anybody possibly justify paying $600 for a flimsy cardboard box and a plastic CD?
[Because Adobe will no longer spend money translating it to Chineese (800 billion speakers)]
Am I the only one who thinks so, or is Adobe Acrobat really shite? Everyone keeps telling me that "it's open-format, it's really great", but:
(a) Their page-down/arrow-down buttons are the wrong way around
(b) It's terrible to try and read a PDF document from the screen. Reams of paper and tens of ink-cartriges, anyone?
(c) It's just generally shite.
Am I just missing something? Will it be any better when I go to linux?
These companies are crying babies. Come on, ain't they the proponent of free market? Don't they understand the market supply and demand?
They priced their product out of reach of 99% of the population, and they now complain about people not buying it. People can get creative, if they don't have the means to buy it. One copy of their software costs more than the income of a whole family for more than 80% of the population in China. Imagine you are US consumer, and your whole family earns $60K/year, and a copy (a license for a single user!) of Photoshop costs $80K. And imagine you get a chance to buy it at $100 on the black market. Go figure.
Maybe Adobe should be more creative in pricing too, if they want to get into this kind of market? Otherwise, don't fucking complain, and stick to the US/EU markets.
out of the 300 people, 100 were dirty and poor, 150 had crappy slave jobs to pay for education, 40 were idiots, and didn't have to work, and 10 were elite. NO ONE paid for software.
adobe should stop marketing software to college kids.
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(I have no idea why we have a normalized trade relationship with this country and yet Cuba is still under an embargo)
Lets see maybe it's because they BOUGHT THE LAST PRESIDENT of the U.S. ???
In return for stupid amounts of campaign money they got Most Favored Nation status at a time when the Russian economy really really could have used the help. Nice way to reward our former enemies for actually (re)joining us in the West, economically and democratically, by turning our backs on them. Way to fucking go Clinton, short term profit over long term goals. Somebody lock up that man and do the world a favor...
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Good troll, jerk. Read an economics book.