I work with the creative cloud/suite daily, and judging from what I read on twitter and in various forums, I get the feeling that I must be among the only happy Adobe customers out there.
I appreciate the continual new features and updates (exception: losing the Pantone solid book), but I feel the overall value proposition is better than it’s ever been. I remember spending hundreds annually on design suite upgrades. Now, a regular subscription gets me all of their software, a generous font selection, photoshop brushes, much more.
Taking Adobe for granted and kicking them around online has become a sport for some, but I suspect it’s a very loud but small segment of their customers.
Yeah, I hear you. A CC subscription is not cheap, but it's pretty incredible what you get for ~$600/yr, especially compared to what's offered by other subscriptions people pay for without blinking an eye.
I'm as eager—if not more—to take on massive greedy corporations as the next person, but my guillotine would be dull well before I got to Adobe's neck.
I appreciate the continual new features and updates (exception: losing the Pantone solid book), but I feel the overall value proposition is better than it’s ever been. I remember spending hundreds annually on design suite upgrades. Now, a regular subscription gets me all of their software, a generous font selection, photoshop brushes, much more.
Taking Adobe for granted and kicking them around online has become a sport for some, but I suspect it’s a very loud but small segment of their customers.