Adobe Makes Products Harder to Use, More Expensive

Posted by michael on Saturday October 18, 2003 @05:20PM from the extracting-monopoly-rents dept.

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)."

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Re:I for one by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-18 18:21 · Score: 5, Funny

*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?"