Adobe, RapidRAW, and the End of Selling Software as a Product

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6 points | by sambellll 13 hours ago ago

4 comments

  • bjt12345 13 hours ago ago

    > they’re worried about AI replacing their tools. I’m worried about AI building their tools.

    Touché

  • fragmede 13 hours ago ago

    Yeah but that's on Adobe. If your business model is shite, extracting revenue from users in unjustifiable ways, a developer is, over a weekend or months, in a fit of spite-driven development, going to take your lunch. Charging a subscription fee for a flashlight app isn't going to work anymore. Good. It shouldn't have in the first place.

    Adobe couldn't even run Creative Cloud properly, and dropped support for their cloud storage, iirc.

  • orionblastar 12 hours ago ago

    Software as a Service is the model Microsoft Office and Adobe products went to with subscriptions. I can use LibreOffice instead of MS Office, but GIMP isn't the same as Photoshop, etc. There needs to be a moonshot project to make GIMP and others as easy to use as Photoshop and have the same features.

    • genxy 12 hours ago ago

      > as easy to use as Photoshop

      Is that a typo?