I couldn't care less if "Facebook never gets your password". It would pass through their servers, and that's simply unacceptable to me. If they ever asked me to do that, I'd shut down my account in a heartbeat.
For the record, I am both an IT and security professional. This is Facebook, people, not critical national security infrastructure. There is not, never has been, and never will be a need for them to have that level of information.
It is buying, as far as I'm concerned, as long as they advertise it as buying. When and if (and I've only heard of one instance where it's happened, at least with Apple / iTunes store) they remove it, I'll be filing a small-claims suit for false advertising.
Yes, a season of a TV show on the iTunes store can be pricey, sometimes more than a monthly subscription to a streaming service, but it is "pay once".
As far as the "Netflix is all well and good" comment, that's at least as much renting as anything else.
I fully agree with others here in saying that what consumers really want is one bill from one company, not 6 or 7 bills from 6 or 7 companies. Apple and others did it with music (one bill from iTunes/Spotify/Pandora - whichever you prefer) and you have access to basically all of the major labels' music and more. There's no technical reason it can't work for video as well. It's just a matter of terms between the companies. Everyone thought it was going to be impossible to get all the music companies to agree to reasonable terms, but that happened.
The current trend is to cry "but we have to keep it away from the kids!"
If anyone really cared about keeping away from the kids, they'd start with enforcement. I can't speak to California laws and regulations, but here in NY, every single place that sells e-cigs/vapes/etc. has signage prohibiting sales to minors - enforce that, if that's what you really care about.
Until then, I will continue to believe that the lawmakers are using "but we have to keep it away from the kids!" as an excuse to push their own agenda against things they don't like.
For the record, this goes for alcohol and combustible tobacco also. Let's get serious about actual enforcement of the laws and regulations prohibiting sales of all these products to minors, if that's what we really care about.
I'm right there with you. If I'm required to use it by my employer, I expect them to pay for the license. If I'm using it for my own personal use or side/consulting projects, I'm going to seriously look at more economical options.
I couldn't agree more. I'm a web developer, and I used to use Photoshop and Dreamweaver all the time (I started using Dreamweaver way back before Adobe even bought it). I stuck with both for a long time - probably longer than I should have. Once I started writing React code, and DW's syntax highlighting for it was pure garbage, I made the switch to VS Code. Haven't looked back.
When I was using both, I had a full subscription to CC, since this was actually less expensive than just getting the two apps I used. Then I downgraded to PS only, saving about $30/month. Now I'm switching over to Affinity, because it gives me everything I need for a ridiculously affordable one-time purchase. As soon as I'm past the learning curve on Affinity Photo, I'll be cancelling my CC subscription altogether.
Adobe's software is decent, but they've priced people like me out of the market. I don't do graphics editing all day long, and I have no desire to spend $600+ per year on their subscription.
I'm a long-time user of Adobe products, but this is getting me to the point where I don't ever want to do business with them anymore. I was willing to go to the subscription model because honestly, it cost less than upgrading often, over time. But I have no desire to keep paying them in a situation where I'm not getting software updates from them (my Macbook Pro is fine, I usually update the OS on that regularly), but my workstation at the office is Win7 and the company has no inclination to upgrade it. I've found good replacements for most of the Adobe software (I'm a developer/designer by profession) - I migrated my code editor from Dreamweaver to VS Code (honestly, DW is falling behind the curve with syntax highlighting, especially on newer languages/frameworks like React), but I miss the design view for previewing and for when I quickly need to put together a visual. Does anyone have good replacement advice for the following: Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator? Replacements would preferably run on both Windows and Mac, since my work computer is Windows and my personal one is Mac.
If I can find good replacements, I'll be giving Adobe the heave-ho.
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I couldn't care less if "Facebook never gets your password". It would pass through their servers, and that's simply unacceptable to me. If they ever asked me to do that, I'd shut down my account in a heartbeat. For the record, I am both an IT and security professional. This is Facebook, people, not critical national security infrastructure. There is not, never has been, and never will be a need for them to have that level of information.
You mean like the Stamp Act of 1765, which was one of the events that encouraged the revolutionary movement in colonial America?
It is buying, as far as I'm concerned, as long as they advertise it as buying. When and if (and I've only heard of one instance where it's happened, at least with Apple / iTunes store) they remove it, I'll be filing a small-claims suit for false advertising.
Yes, a season of a TV show on the iTunes store can be pricey, sometimes more than a monthly subscription to a streaming service, but it is "pay once".
As far as the "Netflix is all well and good" comment, that's at least as much renting as anything else.
I fully agree with others here in saying that what consumers really want is one bill from one company, not 6 or 7 bills from 6 or 7 companies. Apple and others did it with music (one bill from iTunes/Spotify/Pandora - whichever you prefer) and you have access to basically all of the major labels' music and more. There's no technical reason it can't work for video as well. It's just a matter of terms between the companies. Everyone thought it was going to be impossible to get all the music companies to agree to reasonable terms, but that happened.
This is just dumb.
The current trend is to cry "but we have to keep it away from the kids!"
If anyone really cared about keeping away from the kids, they'd start with enforcement. I can't speak to California laws and regulations, but here in NY, every single place that sells e-cigs/vapes/etc. has signage prohibiting sales to minors - enforce that, if that's what you really care about.
Until then, I will continue to believe that the lawmakers are using "but we have to keep it away from the kids!" as an excuse to push their own agenda against things they don't like.
For the record, this goes for alcohol and combustible tobacco also. Let's get serious about actual enforcement of the laws and regulations prohibiting sales of all these products to minors, if that's what we really care about.
I'm right there with you. If I'm required to use it by my employer, I expect them to pay for the license. If I'm using it for my own personal use or side/consulting projects, I'm going to seriously look at more economical options.
I couldn't agree more. I'm a web developer, and I used to use Photoshop and Dreamweaver all the time (I started using Dreamweaver way back before Adobe even bought it). I stuck with both for a long time - probably longer than I should have. Once I started writing React code, and DW's syntax highlighting for it was pure garbage, I made the switch to VS Code. Haven't looked back.
When I was using both, I had a full subscription to CC, since this was actually less expensive than just getting the two apps I used. Then I downgraded to PS only, saving about $30/month. Now I'm switching over to Affinity, because it gives me everything I need for a ridiculously affordable one-time purchase. As soon as I'm past the learning curve on Affinity Photo, I'll be cancelling my CC subscription altogether.
Adobe's software is decent, but they've priced people like me out of the market. I don't do graphics editing all day long, and I have no desire to spend $600+ per year on their subscription.
I'm a long-time user of Adobe products, but this is getting me to the point where I don't ever want to do business with them anymore. I was willing to go to the subscription model because honestly, it cost less than upgrading often, over time. But I have no desire to keep paying them in a situation where I'm not getting software updates from them (my Macbook Pro is fine, I usually update the OS on that regularly), but my workstation at the office is Win7 and the company has no inclination to upgrade it. I've found good replacements for most of the Adobe software (I'm a developer/designer by profession) - I migrated my code editor from Dreamweaver to VS Code (honestly, DW is falling behind the curve with syntax highlighting, especially on newer languages/frameworks like React), but I miss the design view for previewing and for when I quickly need to put together a visual. Does anyone have good replacement advice for the following: Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator? Replacements would preferably run on both Windows and Mac, since my work computer is Windows and my personal one is Mac.
If I can find good replacements, I'll be giving Adobe the heave-ho.
This is the most absurd lawsuit I've heard of in some time. It's like suing Stop & Shop for selling beer, saying that it caused one's alcoholism.
Sorry, wrote too fast - the correct title is "X-Wing vs TIE Fighter", not the other way around.
my favorite game to ever come out of LucasArts: Sam and Max Hit the Road (TIE Fighter vs X-Wing was a close second).