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Adobe annouced today that they are adopting a cloud-only future, and the next version of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all our favorite tools, will be be available only by subscription to the Adobe Creative Cloud.

But I have to get a few quick InDesign-focused headlines off my chest:. Adobe, like all software developers, needs income. They need income to keep supporting and improving their software. And, like most software developers, they have found that it no longer works to offer new versions once every months and hoping that people will upgrade. The world has changed, and it has become clear that the only way for Adobe to provide products is to provide them as a service.

Unfortunately, Adobe has not been particularly good at offering services in the past — they tend to kill them in one way or another. But today it became very, very clear that this is different. We cannot go back to the old days. That said, Adobe acknowledges that there are a lot of people who simply cannot jump the chasm and go all-subscription yet.

It means:. People freaked out and then, relatively quickly, realized Apple was right. David, I realize that Adobe needs income but the way they should get that income is by putting out upgrades that are useful to people. For an example I had no use for CS5 so I skipped that update. Also it takes Adobe so long to make their products stable that they are almost on to the next version by the time the current version to stable enough to use!

What is the point of having a new version that is available immediately? Incredible how quickly times change. The cloud might work for one or two companies, but I believe that it will be the death of many software companies, because while users can pony up for an upgrade to used software every couple of years.

There are few that will be able to afford the monthly hit of software subscriptions. That is simply too much money and I have already found free alternatives for some of what used to be my key software programs.

This decision by Adobe, could well be the one decision that puts life back into Corel Draw and its suite of products. We will have everyone continually paying at the front end. They want you to succeed and make money, and you need them to succeed, too. Why should I be charged for this? First off, yes they have special pricing for the first year. Think how painful it is to downgrade your software. Once I have paid for CC for a year, what am I going to do after that?

Go back to CS 6? Second, they say that this will allow them to enhance the product more frequently. Well, after they have you signed up, why would they ever need to enhance the product again? After all, you have to keep paying, whether they make improvements or not. I see this move leading to fewer improvements, not more.

Adobe knows quite well that they need to keep up the value proposition or people will walk. In people said it would be too hard to walk away from a decade of QuarkXPress files.

Plus, Adobe is saying: You can buy CS6 now and just keep using it as long as you want; but if you want new features, then get CC. Were do people walk away to? Adobe has bought out just about every competitor. I keep seeing this about still being able to buy CS6, but every link takes me to Creative Cloud. What am I missing? It took organizations years to migrate almost as long as it will take to migrate away from Adobe , but we did it anyway because we could upgrade to the entire Creative Suite for about the same price as just QuarkXpress.

The problem today is alternatives. All that changed today, and Adobe has created a whole new demand for alternatives. In that case, why not make CS6 dirt cheap? May get many like myself on CS4 to upgrade now and then decide if CC is worthwhile.

Also, how will Adobe market CC? I totally agree with Sheri about Adobe not having the incentive to put out good updates to their products with a subscription service. If you are signed up for the service and there is no competing software suite to go to why bother putting out good updates anymore? I agree. But Adobe is forcing me to make a decision. Naturally I would like to see Adobe continue to succeed.

I depend upon, at the very least, Photoshop every day. However, I abhor subscription models. Yes, I would like Adobe to support my ID. Yes, and things are going so well in our relationship. They are deaf to our requests for basic functionality upgrades. I want paragraph spacing that is intuitive. The burden of proof should be on Adobe.

And they still get the job done! A lot of designers out there still use CS2, 3, 4… This will only continue that trend. Monthly payments? No thanks, Adobe. I already have one mortgage. They have LOTS of income. I believe they are the second biggest software company in the world behind Microsoft. No, you can subscribe to a single application if you want. I pointed out in my comment that you have the option to buy only one app but my point was that nobody uses only one app so that option serves no purpose.

Lucky me. Accepting Cloud means we never own our work. Quit paying Adobe and you lose access to ALL your files. Pay or be locked out is absurd. Or they can change and lock-out features at will. Plus, what a horrible deal. Everyone should be saying no thanks. No way. What is needed instead is reasonable pricing on CS suite modules individually. I do not intend to rent any software from Adobe and be held hostage to a subscription in order to keep accessing the files that I have already created.

With Indesign, Adobe has a terrible track record of making each new file format incompatible with previous versions, so if the user ever stops purchasing a subscription and wants to revert to using CS6, forget about accessing existing document files! I also agree that Adobe has been too quick to roll out unstable upgrades, not too slow to roll out upgrades. And for a time, Adobe was even saying they had no intention of fixing the bug!

You have 90 days to pull things out of the Cloud if you end your subscription. If you work for major brands like I do, the NDAs they require will force you to ignore the Cloud anyway.

The whole idea of designers working on large and complex project files from the Cloud is nice on paper, but fairly absurd in reality. I might be okay with this if they offer a better pricing tier approach. Their current Creative Cloud pricing almost doubles the annual cost on the Adobe applications I use as opposed to just upgrading every year. Maybe Adobe needs to think about some internal restructuring to match demand rather than trying to pull what, at this point, seems to me to be a squeeze play on customers.

I imagine most of this griping will end when users discover that this means that Adobe can continually roll out upgrades rather than holding back, forcing us to wait 18 months for a new full digit upgrade. Since I do paid book layout, I know I can get a lot of value out of a new and improved ID in that time frame.

This is also a fix for the problem that the CS suite model created—forcing every app to fit into the same upgrade schedule. Now each app can move at its own pace. Improvements to ebook export alone, particularly to ePub, could save me that much time. Having documents in the cloud should also allow me to work on InDesign documents away from my home office.

I could buy several months of CC for the cost of upgrading it. That said, the pricing scheme is certainly a feast or famine: every app Adobe has or just one. I hope they add more. A scheme to allow us to vote for specific product enhancements would be great. If you really wanted one, you could load money into its fund month after month and encourage your buddies to do the same. If they put out products that were more stable I would welcome that.

The griping will never end. Has Adobe forgotten that the vast majority of users use Indesign for print?