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• Adobe doubles down on subscriptions

  Posted on December 9, 2024 at 02:45 CST by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 21.50 • 2024-12-09

  SOFTWARE

  

  By Will Fastie

  Adobe converted its Elements line into subscription products, while at the same time claiming it hadn’t.

  For 20 years, Adobe sold Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, along with the Adobe Organizer, as economical and perpetual-license versions of its mainstream products, Photoshop and Premiere. Even after Adobe moved those mainstream products into subscriptions — moving from Creative Suite to Creative Cloud — the Elements line remained perpetual.

  Around Thanksgiving, Adobe began aggressively promoting the 2025 version of both Elements products, either individually or in a bundle. But this time, the license terms changed. And Adobe was a bit sneaky about it.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.50.0, 2024-12-09).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Software Adobe, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Premiere Elements, Corel PaintShop Pro, Corel VideoStudio Pro, Newsletters, Subscription model

• Forces shaping the future — the consumer

  Posted on December 9, 2024 at 02:44 CST by Max Stul Oppenheimer • Comment in the Forums

  LEGAL BRIEF

  

  By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq.

  In previous columns, we’ve identified three social factors that shape the path of technological development: government rules, litigation, and consumer actions.

  With respect to government, we reviewed how government rules, enforcement actions, and litigation influence how technology develops. Government rules can define what is and is not permissible in broad terms, but they cannot be written with the detail needed to apply definitively to all specific situations.

  Litigation, on the other hand, is directed to specific situations, to technically governs only the behavior of the parties to the litigation. Both operate by their effect on the bottom line — which is, well … the bottom line for company decisions.

  In this column, we’ll look at the role that consumers play. As with the other two factors, consumers influence how companies operate by affecting the bottom line.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.50.0, 2024-12-09).

  Legal Brief Competition, Consumers, Copilot, Newsletters, Subscription model

• The Quickening

  Posted on March 18, 2024 at 02:43 CDT by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  SOFTWARE

  

  By Will Fastie

  My relationship with Quicken has gone from friendly to annoying to infuriating over the past ten years. But is my opinion justified?

  I’ve been using Quicken, specifically the Home & Business edition, for at least 25 years, and plain old Quicken for years before that. It’s been an excellent program, and I always felt it was reasonably priced.

  I last purchased a copy in 2015. That was shortly before the Intuit/Quicken world turned upside down.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.12.0, 2024-03-18).

  Software Accounting Software, Marketing, Newsletters, Quicken, Subscription model, Support