New: Photoshop Express for free.
This confirms what I observed years ago: as software matures, an increasing portion of it becomes cheaper, and then free.
Heck, if you buy a Mac today, you have all the software you'll ever need, for most people. Browser, email, word processor, bladiblah.
And then you can include iWork and iLife, two packages which includes so much productivity that you don't ever have to be bored again, for a price which nobody can call anything but a bargain. iLife is included for free with every new iMac, and iWork is only eighty bucks. Ten years ago getting something like all those things would have cost a small fortune.
"Heck, if you buy a Mac today, you have all the software you'll ever need, for most people. Browser, email, word processor, bladiblah."
ReplyDeleteIndeed! And one day, if they actually get the system to work without crashing all the time, and make the system able to boot from a modern file system (such as UFS introduced in 1983), so that we can actually keep our files in the Mac, it will be even nicer! :-)
Maybe not entirely free; this item lurks:
ReplyDelete8. Use of Your Content.
Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.
-jbh-
Ah. Yes.
ReplyDeleteThat's typical.
However until we actually see a corporation make active use of such rights, I'm assuming they are their to cover their ass in case somebody regrets putting their stuff on Adobe's server.