Rob, you make it sound as though Adobe will be hosting the entire application, even running it, at a central location, with the end users using their machines as terminals. Last I checked, that's not how cloud computing works.
The one thing that sticks in my craw is the price. $50/month is still a lot of money - more than most people would be willing to pay. Maybe if they brought the price down to twenty or twenty-five, with the option to buy more months in advance in a lump sum for a lesser per-month rate, then they'd attract a lot more business and make a lot more money. After all, instead of paying for making the discs, packaging them, and shipping them to stores, you're merely paying for bandwidth and other overhead costs of running a cloud.
Quote:Adobe® Creative Cloud™ is the digital hub that lets you download andSo, you can install the applications onto your machine, and, I bet, the licenses, too. The Cloud just ensures regular updates as well as synchronization between your machine and other machines you use. Not to mention sharing files and collaboration.
install every Adobe Creative Suite® 6 application; access online
services for file sharing, collaboration, and publishing; and benefit
from new apps and features as soon as they're released — giving you the
freedom to create anything you can imagine.
The one thing that sticks in my craw is the price. $50/month is still a lot of money - more than most people would be willing to pay. Maybe if they brought the price down to twenty or twenty-five, with the option to buy more months in advance in a lump sum for a lesser per-month rate, then they'd attract a lot more business and make a lot more money. After all, instead of paying for making the discs, packaging them, and shipping them to stores, you're merely paying for bandwidth and other overhead costs of running a cloud.