Making Photoshop a subscription service was an extremely successful business decision, so I'm not sure what the comparison is supposed to mean here.
I say this as someone who switched to Krita and canceled CC subscription.
Making Photoshop a subscription service was an extremely successful business decision, so I'm not sure what the comparison is supposed to mean here.
I say this as someone who switched to Krita and canceled CC subscription.
"extremely successful business decision" and "inherently disliked" can both be true. Increasing fees quite often works out for the business too, but consumers don't generally like it.
> consumers don't generally like it
I'd prefer looking at what (potential) consumers actually do rather than what they say. "Saying" is a really weak signal.
Yes, and, op's point stands.
I am one of those people: 1. Absolutely despise the lightroom being subscription and 2. Haven't switched yet.
There are moats and capabilities and friction. Not every vote with your wallet is a ringing endorsement. I have 15 years of lightroom databases over 100k photos so switching is hard. At the same time those are from the time I did a photography side gig, now I don't so monthly cost for no monthly gains really peeves me.
So it absolutely is a successful business decision and it absolutely is widely despised by customer base. Both are true :-)
Ok mr sceptic, where are your numbers showing consumers buy more of a thing after it becomes more expensive?
Was merely commenting on the observed preference vs stated preference issue (aka "the Say/Do Gap"), not the underlying point about raising prices.
Enshificstion kills companies slowly, then all at once.