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They had it coming..
Adobe used to let you buy their software, and you could use it for life. But their new stuff would be so much better that companies and people would buy the new version every time.
Now it's a subscription with barely any innovation. You have to pay every month just to keep the software you have. And it's been a decade since any decent innovation from adobe. And on top of that: they charge a cancellation fee, even to students who cancel because they can't afford the subscription.
And now they're integrating ai. It's amazing tool, but the models they use are built on theft. Theft of of the hard work of the very people they claim to support.
And now they think they can just walk onto a platform they didn't bribe and expect to be liked
I just looked into it, and holy shit. A cancellation fee for a digital service is lunacy. It's not like you're booking a finite resource that you stopped the company from offering to someone else that would have used it. (Like cancelling a booking for an event.)
No, but projected profits are tangible. People cancelling makes their long term planning a bit more difficult.
Not that that's relevant to adobe. Innovation there has pretty much flatlined
What the shit? How the hell can they charge a cancellation fee? That should be made illegal.
It's not illegal. What is illegal is sneaking one into a contract. And if I remember correctly they did get in trouble for that. In most countries it had to be (mostly) clear what you're signing up for
They didn't just kill the for life license btw. They would harass you literally every year to relinquish that license for some "great deal" on the new monthly license (source : I know several people with old Photoshop licenses)
I have an old cs6 license. And they just started pretending it doesn't exist. I had to find "alternative" means to keep using what I paid for. It's handicapped now tho