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Our usual pattern in dealing with major innovations in tech matters as well as much else is initial resistance, eventual resignation and, finally, accommodation. Adobe is no doubt counting on this typical consumer behavior.
However, the new subscription plan, at least in its initial form, may not follow that familiar scenario. There are too many balking points in the stunning disregard and lack of accommodation for customers' differing needs.There is the ridiculous price increase, the loss of budgetary autonomy and perpetual credit account access inherent in the type of automatic contract renewal required by Adobe, the date of birth requirement that puts customer's identity information at risk, the potential for lack of privacy of work product and no doubt other considerations that all together are a threat and an insult to the company's base of faithful customers.
I use Photoshop in many ways and dislike the idea of losing it. At first, the new dispensation didn't seem too bad, but the more I consider its implications, the more resistant I am to continuing with Adobe products. I am not becoming reconciled, but the opposite.
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