Digital BW, The Print

Absolutely right Paul. Corporations have only one concern and that’s to prosper through greater profitability. In order to do that some of them find it helpful to be kind to their customers and make better products at reasonable prices while others (like banks) will attempt to rape, pillage and steal. I suspect from past experience that that Adobe is in the first camp, but who knows what the future holds since Adobe management has established a stranglehold monopoly in its market. With the rollout of CC, they’ve written themselves blank checks to our accounts with our consent. Consumers have rights against abuse of that trust, but companies may not be so lucky. Business to business transactions aren’t covered by consumer protection laws, but rather the UCC. Time will tell.

From: Paul Roark 
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2013 11:15 AM
To: DigitalB&WPrint 
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Photoshop Create Cloud program for photographers




John Castronovo <jc@...> wrote:

    ... a trustworthy company

Corporations have a duty to their stockholders to maximize profits.  What you can "trust" is that they will do just that.

  ...  none of this is automatically in favor of the consumer any more.

Never was.

Ultimately, it's only competition and long term self interest of the company that will hold down prices.