well correct me if i am wrong, but for the subscription you get service and not a product. same as phone, utility etc. you stop paying and stop getting the service. however it only works well when if it is moderately affordable and the service is good so that enough people subscribe to make enough profit.
except with my phone contract when the contract ends I can still use the phone, sure its old and outdated but its all I need. Why cant they do the same with software? 3d software is not a service...its a tool, like a phone, the telecommunications network connection the phone uses is the service.
Yeah but an art program is still a functional object outside of it's perpetual upkeep. Just like how if I stop paying for telephone service I can still functionally operate the telephone, pressing buttons etc. In terms of the telephone it's use is synonymous with it's perpetual need to be connected. However a program once…
and that's why I hate SaaS (Software as a Service). We're just giving away more and more control of what we purchase back to vendors who can obsolete and control software at their leisure enabling them to hold you hostage. Maybe that's the reason why some of our clients still haven't updated from Max 9.0 ;)
I think subscription licensing was an inevitability. I'm just wondering why it took Autodesk so long to jump on this sales model, though the pricing is still outrageous. Adobe's pricing is so much easier to swallow. $20/mo for Photoshop seems like a bargain when you consider that many pay three or four times as much for…