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I’m resurrecting this thread in honour of this wonderfully calm and thoughtful piece on Adobe’s subscription model, which I both agree with and commend to the house:
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Introductory offer I think, I seem to remember starting off with a year for that or similar.

Here’s a good example of the issue - a ‘smart’ thermostat that suddenly introduced a subscription model if it was to continue to work! See the furious reviews here. I have no problem with some things...

While that cnet article shows that it’s cheaper than buying the ‘master collection’, that was already an absurdly expensive package full of redundant software, that you were forced to buy if you...

I feel the same way as the OP. While some things have every reason to be subscriptions and charge a reasonable price, for others it’s a way of overcharging and sucking blood for services that you...