stumblebird wrote:
I hate adobe for 20years I have been using these products. Forcing people to go to cloud because they a monopoly on the market and cutting off support to cs6. The people that made this decision are morons. I can see why people end up pirating software when greedy companies like this exist.
Adobe is not a monopoly. They're very dominant in print media, fairly popular in video, but just a smaller player in web and app design and development (apart from creating imagery). So they still have to compete a lot and keep up with others ! And for print-media, one could easily keep using CS6 or even CS5 for many more years. There's hardly anything new or crucial to print producers in the newer versions of Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. Adobe has also announced numerous times they will supporting CS6 users with maintenance updates. Of course, this won't be indefinite, but they're definitely not cutting-off CS6 right now or very soon.
And in stead of stimulating piracy, Adobe CC is actually stimulating those were using illegal installations and activations, to subscribe for their tools and services. Especially since it's also available on a per-month basis (for incidental users) and as an extremely affordable bundle for photographers.
Complaints about support and installations will always be part of any software environment. Adobe CC has improved its installation and management tools a lot, which was very necessary, coming from an error-prone collection of all kinds of Adobe software and services. But it's really much better now. Would support be much better if Adobe had continued to offer CC as a perpetual license scheme ? So should it be a reason for down-thumbing Adobe CC ? It's just your "I Now Hate Everything Adobe" attitude talking, I'm afraid...
After two years of having Adobe CC available and after one year of Adobe CC being the way to go, I encounter more and more users who are very satisfied with this offering. Especially the quicker development and availability of updates is something they mention as being a real boon. And users who were less concerned about having so many applications and services, they are surprisingly happy to learn using new tools for their entrance into new media. It's not a financial consideration anymore - they just install and open up the software and have a go at it.
So I don't mind users wanting to hang onto their CS versions for print media, but please excuse others who really want to move forward with the world. Things change, you know...