By Steve Paris
Subscriptions mean you don’t own the software you’re spending money on, you have to keep forking out every month, and if you cancel the payments, you no longer have access to those apps. What possible advantages can this scheme of things offer over just buying the programs outright?
If this question is on your mind, you might benefit more from Adobe’s prosumer apps, Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements. They’re self-contained programs with no ongoing charge, which you can use as little or as often as you please for a single affordable outlay.
But subscribing to Adobe’s Creative Cloud may well make a lot of sense as a creative professional, especially if you use these apps day in, day out, and you look forward to the new features offered in their regular major updates. If that’s the case, you could end up making some serious savings through a monthly subscription plan.
Money talks
Let’s take a look at one example: Avid Media Composer, a powerful video editing tool. You can buy it outright for $1,299 (around £960) or, like Adobe, subscribe to the service for between $49.99 (£40) per month or $34.97 (£28), …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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