“In abandoning the Creative Suite label for Creative Cloud, Adobe signaled its intent to move fully into the mobile and Internet era, abandoning individual standalone editions of its products and moving toward a subscription-only model,” AppleInsider reports.
“That model will see users subscribing to the $50/month Creative Cloud system and receiving updates through that subscription,” AppleInsider reports. “Adobe will continue support for its existing Creative Suite 6 products, but the company has no plans to release further Creative Suite products.”
AppleInside reports, “A Creative Cloud membership will include access to virtually every product Adobe makes, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Typekit, and more… The new Creative Cloud will roll out in June. Customers that own a Creative Suite product already will be able to get their first year of Creative Cloud at the discounted rate of $30 per month. ”
Read more in the full article here.
Adobe’s press release, verbatim:
Adobe Accelerates Shift to the Cloud
LOS, ANGELES — May 6, 2013 — At Adobe MAX, The Creativity Conference, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today accelerated its shift to the cloud with a major update to Adobe® Creative Cloud™, the company’s flagship offering for creatives. Today’s update to Creative Cloud is packed with features, reimagining the creative process through a new set of “CC” desktop applications and enhanced cross-device collaboration and publishing capabilities (see separate press release). With this update, creative files can be stored, synced and shared, via Creative Cloud, on Mac OS, Windows, iOS and Android; and Behance, the world’s leading online creative community, is integrated with Creative Cloud, so customers can showcase work, get feedback on projects and gain global exposure.
Creative Cloud’s advanced capabilities are making it a hit with the worldwide creative community: more than a half million paid members, and well over 2 million free members have signed up for Creative Cloud since it was launched in April 2012.
Adobe also announced that the company will focus creative software development efforts on its Creative Cloud offering moving forward. While Adobe Creative Suite® 6 products will continue to be supported and available for purchase, the company has no plans for future releases of Creative Suite or other CS products. Focusing development on Creative Cloud will not only accelerate the rate at which Adobe can innovate but also broaden the type of innovation the company can offer the creative community.
“We launched Creative Cloud a year ago and it has been a runaway success,” said David Wadhwani, senior vice president and general manager, Digital Media, Adobe. “By focusing our energy — and our talented engineers — on Creative Cloud, we’re able to put innovation in our members’ hands at a much faster pace.”
On top of new collaboration and publishing services and the integration of Behance, today’s announced update to Creative Cloud includes stunning versions of Adobe’s next generation of desktop applications — including Adobe Photoshop® CC, InDesign® CC, Illustrator® CC, Dreamweaver® CC and Premiere® Pro CC. Adobe’s desktop tools, previously known as Creative Suite (CS), are now branded CC to reflect that they are an integral part of Creative Cloud and have been reinvented to support a more intuitive, connected way of creating.
Adobe is facilitating the transition to Creative Cloud with attractive pricing plans and promotions for individual members, teams and enterprise customers. For more details, visit: https://creative.adobe.com/plans. Adobe will continue to sell licenses for all CS6 products via electronic download from adobe.com and participating resellers.
About Creative Cloud
Adobe Creative Cloud is a membership-based service that provides users with access to download and install Adobe creative desktop applications; game developer tools and integration with the Adobe Touch Apps. With Creative Cloud membership, users also have access to: a vibrant global creative community; publishing services to deliver apps and websites; cloud storage and the ability to sync to virtually any device; and new products and exclusive updates as they’re developed.
Membership Plans and Availability
By signing up for Creative Cloud today, creatives will be set up to immediately download and use these latest cloud-enabled innovations from Adobe, when they are available next month. Creative Cloud membership for individuals is US$49.99 per month based on annual membership; existing customers who own CS3 to CS5.5 get their first year of Creative Cloud at the discounted rate of US $29.99 per month. Students and teachers can get Creative Cloud for $29.99 per month. Promotional pricing is available for some customers, including CS6 users.
A team version of Creative Cloud includes everything individual members receive plus 100GB of storage and centralized deployment and administration capabilities. Creative Cloud for teams is priced at US $69.99 per month per seat. Existing customers, who own a volume license of CS3 or later, get their first year of Creative Cloud for teams at the discounted rate of US $39.99 per month per seat if they sign up before the end of August 2013.
Adobe also announced Creative Cloud for enterprise today and special licensing programs for educational institutions and government. For more details, visit: https://creative.adobe.com/plans.
Source: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Dead in the water.
You can’t cancel your subscription. At least at the “Team” level (multiple seats for a business), you have to subscribe a year at a time. They just bill you monthly and advertise a smaller “per month” dollar cost.
I just bought the new Acorn 4.0 version for $30 (AppStore or direct from developer). I have been using it for getting images sized and sharpened for Xcode projects. I have been pleased with the results. I had used all the Photoshop versions dating back to Classic OS9. I just can’t take this subscription stuff. Isn’t that what Steve Jobs said about iTunes — people want to own their music, not rent it. The same is even more true for software. I want to own it. I will never use a newer version of Photoshop (and I expect Adobe to try to cripple all the old versions with some maintenance “update”). Scumbags now.
This is not the way to go Adobe.
Bye bye, i Will miss you dearly.
Apple: Opportunity is knocking… Rise up!
Expand & promote your Pro creative software NOW & undercut Adobe. Unveil a next generation 21st Century Mac Pro.
Apple should buy Corel. Incorporate a few key improvements into Paintshop Pro and CorelDRAW and Apple could have a powerful competitive offering.
Apple buying Corel is a bit more likely and easy compared to buying Adobe. However, I believe Corel is Canadian, which would add a kink or two. Corel owns a nice pile of underutilized apps which could become superior under Apple’s management, if Apple is even interested. I’m not convinced Apple would want to bother. They ended up spinning off FileMaker. Perhaps if they spun off a creative software division.
Corel is owned by a San Francisco based venture capital firm.
Key products:
Cornel draw
Paintshop Pro
Corel Painter
Corel Cad – technical illustration
WordPerfect
“Corel is owned by a San Francisco…”
Thank you for catching me up. I haven’t paid much attention to them as a company since the now long ago infusion of cash from Microsoft to keep WordPerfect alive as competition for Office Word. Apparently, they were sold since then.
Just what every person needs, another monthly fee taken out of the bank account. With that ever so slight increase like the cable companies seem to do so well.
Think this will bite Adobe.
Frack Adobe!!! Thieving Tards!!!
They priced me out years, ago.
I am still using Adobe CS4 for all of my current work.
They are going to really screw over a lot of the small professional designers and small design businesses with this.
Adobe can just go and screw themselves
I think they really have shot themselves in the foot with this decision.
Truly a real bunch of ashats running Adobe.
You lost me at Cloud.
Does this mean; CC7(?) = Winblows 7/XP ?
A lot of negative feedback from users on here and I wanna explain something. This will not be Adobe’s undoing. This is probably the best thing they have done since slowly getting rid of Flash. They have included a great 3D software package with Cinema 4D so now you can begin making real 3D graphics with your after effects compositions. Now everyone will always have the version everyone else has. There will be no “oh i am on CS5, not CS6.” It’s a tad bit expensive, but all you gotta do is rip em off and get the educational pricing….its 29.99 a month, which a is a bunch cheaper than 49.99…which I think might jump to 75 after a year. You get 20GB’s online…which by the way was my answer after idisk went offline from Apple.
Am I a fan of Adobe. Heck no! I still like Motion and Final Cut Pro more than After Effects and Premiere. BUT! Adobe is not going to lose because of this subscription. Anytime you can do a “lease” kind of deal it gives the ability for more people to purchase it because they can budget it. It also helps Adobe on keeping its books in check.
Obvious paid shill…
Seriously? Did you read the whole comment or just the first 2 sentences?
Creative Suite 6 is way more than enough for me. Guess I’ll be hanging on to that for several years or a decade.
Adobe will suffer, their stock will sink, then Apple can buy them at a discount. Stupid Adobe, just stupid.
I’m soooo glad I’m not absolutely reliant on Adobe products. If I can just figure a way out of PS I can dump them altogether and go with FCPX to my video work done – and the only reason I need PS at all is because I need on-par share-ability with high end graphic designers… There’s got to be a way to get away from PS.
I really despise mandatory subscription paradigms, especially for pro software – and yes I know that the high-end cg tools already do this – I still don’t like it.
That’s why it’s a good idea to have a two-boot system: in my internal hard drive, I’m staying with Snow Leopard and all the old reliable and fast-running programs that I don’t need to update. Then on an external firewire drive (which is almost as fast if not as fast as running the internal drive), I have the latest and greatest OS versions with whatever apps will only run on the that latest version (like XCode).
Bye bye, Adobe!
I think this is more about Piracy than monopoly.
Sounds to me like Adobe ran out of ideas on how to improve their products.
Apple: Opportunity knocking. Step up your Pro software suite and Mac Pro hardware plus undercut Adobe to take the lead.
Ive signup up for the full creative cloud solution. If your a creative professional its a no brainer – Just charge an extra $49 on one job a month and it pays for it!
Adobe has drawn a line in the sand, from this its pretty obvious who they want as customers : creative professionals who use the software everyday.
Likewise they know who they don’t want as customers too : Amateurs or people who only dabble. These people wont value the creative cloud package at all as they don’t make a living using adobe products (Ive been using photoshop since version 2.0!)
Ive been using adobe Muse for nearly 3 weeks now for my new website and its amazingly easy to use, and in my opinion better than Dreamweaver, especially if you’re not a coder/programmer and more of a designer who want to create a beautiful html 5 website.
So what camp are you in?
Whether you like this or not, this is the business model ALL software makers will be using in a few years as it locks customers in and creates a sustainable monthly revenue for the company to have as a stable base to build its business.
The days of packaged standalone software products are numbered!
Wrong move.
Adobe should instead offer cheap versions of all apps. Look at the Apple App Store. If Photoshop was $19.95, Adobe would get all the current pirates to transform into paying customers and the legacy of Photoshop would prevail.
Now, they will limit their customer base and loose the grip over the market. Alternatives are cheering right now and popping the champagne – finally Adobe started to dig its own grave!
Mark this day as the beginning of the end for Adobe – greed finally took its toll. I guess the battle against Apple has been forcing them into this corner – sad indeed.
Goodbye Photoshop. I won’t be buying a new version of you ever again.
Steve Jobs was right about Adobe being Lazy. They are too lazy to innovate to entice users to upgrade, but take the easy and lazy way of getting revenue. Adobe will never see a cent from me again. Lazy Bastards.
I teach Commercial Photography at a public Tech School. We purchase a school-wide license for the Master Collection. I wonder how the subscription model is going to affect my class. Local school boards do not like leases and like subscriptions even less. This is just not the way that they do business. The good news is that if the board will adapt to this model the software will never be out of date.
After being boned by Apple with Final Cut Pro X (iMovie Pro), I was seriously considering (like so many others) Adobe Premiere. Not now! Not gonna happen. May have to hold my nose and go back to Avid.
The only part of this Adobe subscription thing, that could really upset me, is if they take Lightroom to subscription only. That’s the only Adobe product I would truly miss.