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Adobe Makes Products Harder to Use, More Expensive
An anonymous reader writes "This is a follow-up to an earlier story on slashdot about Adobe releasing their Creative Suite package. It seems that Adobe has decided to go they way of Intuit's TurboTax last year and add activation to their products. Legitimate users are up in arms. For Adobe, they follow the steps of other companies, macromedia, quark (who coincidentally shipped their entire engineering offshore) in the graphics biz. Now since in theory they'll be making more money, I hope at least the price goes down (oops, it did not, looks like the upgrade price even increased)."
The EDU Price for the Suite is $399 (where I am, anyway)....so its a steal over the retail....activation or not.
Tell me
Why'd you have to go and add product activation?
It's just gonna lead to lots of user frustration.
It's like this it'll
Be hacked 'till it's cracked and then it will be put on p 2 p
Honestly, it's not gonna stop the pirates anyway...
No, no, no.
*groans*
I, for one, would welcome new jokes.
To get it off everybody's chest, whether trying to be funny or otherwise:
"All your foreign software are belong to us."
"In Soviet Russia, program activates you!"
"Paying for Photoshop: Priceless.
Paying for an upgrade: More."
"Photoshop? Nice. But does it run the GIMP?"
"<Beowulf - nuff said>"
"1. Sell product for too much.
2. Sell upgrade for more.
3. Profit.
4. ??????
5. Activation!"
And last but not least, one that seems to be gaining popularity:
"Why is this news?"
6.5? There is no 6.5 of Photoshop. There is only 6, 6.01, 7.0, 7.01. Sir, please put down the crack pipe and no one will get hurt.
Can't find the "-1 Too Intelligent, Please Go Away" button !
Thomas Miconi-
Sodipodi