Adobe Jumps the Shark: http://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/03/23/adobe-jumps-the-shark/ … #mjtsaiblog
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@oluseyidotinfo Good point. So do you think most customers are happy (enough), or have no choice, or these charts are lagging indicators?
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@mjtsai I think Adobe's core customers see no acceptable substitutes, meaning they nail their core task better than the competition. -
@oluseyidotinfo Yep. We’ll see how long that remains true.
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@mjtsai There have been some interesting budget entrants—Pixelmator, Affinity—but their revenue models will prove problematic. -
@mjtsai Ironically, Reid dings Adobe for the subscription model, but shrink wrapped, pay-once software is increasingly the anachronism. - View other replies
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@oluseyidotinfo Subscriptions would actually eliminate the problem he had with Acrobat.
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@mjtsai Well, mostly. They'd still need an updater, either for the entire application or just for its components. Even with App Store IAP…
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Michael Tsai
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