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If $10/month makes or breaks your business, I have bad news for you.
#Put pixave in google drive professional
$120/year is really not that much if you are a professional photographer (or digital artist) who needs the bells and whistles that PS/LR provide.
#Put pixave in google drive upgrade
You'll have the same problem: "hey photo_something 2.0 doesn't work on MacOS High Sierra anymore, but our v3.0 does, for a small upgrade fee".Īre you going to hold back on upgrading your OS? For how long? At some point all the delay tactics stop working, and by then there isn't enough of an ecosystem for the "old world" anymore to help you transition out smoothly.
#Put pixave in google drive software
It's not much different from another piece of software that you buy outright, but that is not going to be supported after X years. And of course you could export those edits out of LR before you stop your subscription. It's only the metadata and other photo edits that you would lose if you were to stop subscribing. The photos themselves aren't locked in: they end up somewhere on your filesystem (that mimics the structure you see in LR).
(I actually looked it up and saw that they do indeed have ~15,000 employees (hopefully most aren't developers), but it's honestly insane to think that they need that many people to work on incremental updates to well-established programs that already do 99% of what's expected of them). Obviously they have other operating costs and they need some net income, but in my opinion it really should not require such excessive pricing, especially when their software is made to stop working as soon as you stop paying. Looking at the statistics about creative cloud revenue it seems like they're earning in excess of $3 billion every year, so splitting that up among the same salaries would be more like 15k developers working on the products (no matter how complex their software is, 15,000 developers seems like a massive stretch for relatively minor updates to their existing platforms). If they gave every developer a $200k salary, that would be equal to 450 developers. With 9 million paid subscribers that would be at least $90 million / year, assuming that everyone was on the minimum plan and only had a single license. For a company with one graphic designer using Photoshop+Illustrator, that's $60/month (or $70 to get all the apps). For a business, it's $30/month/app/license. Those are individual prices, but yeah honestly they are pretty high. Not all of these are sold as subscriptions but they might as well be because of the way the expensive upgrades work (e.g. I've owned many of these products since they were installed via 3 1/4 inch floppys. It would make more sense if this high end software was priced per days of use not for the number of months that I've owned it. It even includes games like World of Warcraft. I'm unhappy using low end software and so I end up buying crazy expensive software that gets very infrequent use: Mathematica, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Acrobat Scanner/OCR/X Pro, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, QuickBooks, SPSS, Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Microsoft Word, Excel, the list goes on and on. My problem is that I'm a nerd and I like using software. I also don't mind paying for on-line services: Arq backup, Dropbox, etc. I don't mind paying for IntelliJ, its a great product, and I get regular use out of it and JetBrain's other tools.
#Put pixave in google drive free
Professionally, I use Linux, MacOS, Windows, Emacs, programming languages, and TeX a great deal and they are all extremely powerful and end up being either free or just part of the expense of having a computer. Furthermore, some subscriptions seem to be intentionally hard to turn off (WSJ news and Adobe products). I would much rather purchase a program outright. What bothers me about subscription pricing is how expensive it invariably turns out to be considering the amount of use I get out of a program.
#Put pixave in google drive tv
Thirty years ago, I had a $20/mo land line, and a TV antenna, and that was it! Think about that! I'm not at all clear that my quality of life is $500/mo better than it was back then. If your model requires a monthly payment for something, it must literally change my life, at this point. This is why people are saying they only pay for a subscription if it REALLY matters to them. I just can't keep paying for all these things, even when they're only a "few" dollars, every month. I understand everyone wants a subscriber, not a customer, but my budget is dying a death from a thousand cuts here. and I'm probably forgetting several others. Then you have Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Sam's Club (Premium!), Google Play, some stupid app my daughter needs for $8/mo, Wolfram Alpha to help her with homework, LastPass, Apple iCloud storage, SpiderOak backup, Google apps for business.
Cell service and cable TV & internet are already $350/mo for me. What non-life-critical apps or services am I paying for every month? Quite a lot already. It's a function of the straw that broke the camel's back.
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