{"id":3228,"date":"2011-12-01T08:40:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2011-12-01T08:40:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:40:52","slug":"upgrade-policy-for-adobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/upgrade-policy-for-adobe\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade policy for Adobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how certain this will come to fruition, but it may be the case that Adobe&#8217;s tightening up their policy on upgrades to their Creative Suite products. Apparently, if you don&#8217;t have their latest, CS5 or CS5.5 versions of CS, you may be stuck paying the full price for the next version when it comes out.<\/p>\n<p>From Scott Kelby&#8217;s blog (president of NAPP):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>From the information I\u2019ve gathered, it appears to me that this new upgrade policy for the next version of Adobe Photoshop and the Creative Suite (presumably called CS6) will leave a significant number of your customers with no affordable upgrade path to Photoshop CS6 or the Creative Suite. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottkelby.com\/blog\/2011\/archives\/22903\" target=\"_blank\">ScottKelby.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally I think this blows. For reasons that I think Scott Kelby explains better than I could. But overall the strategies that Adobe has been using these past few years doesn&#8217;t leave a good taste in my mouth. It&#8217;s like a good company gone bad&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I miss the days where a new version of Adobe products would come out every 2 or 3 years and I&#8217;d actually look forward to it because it would be so awesome and revolutionary. Now I almost dread an upgrade because often it just feels like they&#8217;re ripping me off for more money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how certain this will come to fruition, but it may be the case that Adobe&#8217;s tightening up their policy on upgrades to their Creative Suite products. Apparently, if you don&#8217;t have their latest, CS5 or CS5.5 versions of CS, you may be stuck paying the full price for the next version when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,8,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-news","category-business","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3229,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}