tclark513 wrote: ExactImage wrote: KGCW wrote:
In about a year of creative cloud use I've never been forced to upgrade anything against my will, and I'm pretty sure I won't be either when new major versions pop out. It was also clearly stated during the first Max keynote that Application Manager will let you go back to older versions (starting with CS6) if needed.
Indeed, but you 'have' been forced to keep paying month after month or lose the use of the software, regardless of whether you wanted to upgrade or not.
Correct me if I'm wrong but there hasn't been any updates since the cloud was announced. Didn't it start with CS6? So there is nothing for them to force on you at this time. |
They have in fact added specific updates to Creative Cloud. They versions still are in the CS6 family, but they were features not included in the original release.
The Creative Cloud desktop app was the main big thing added for me, but they've added additional software packages (all the Edge tools), features in Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver. These are things only available to Creative Cloud members.
Now that everything will be focused on the Creative Cloud, I think you should expect to see a couple of things. First of all, gone will be the days of "here's a new version, with 20 new features and enhancements!" Instead, you'll see the improvements added along the way (just like apps on your phone, updates are pumped out as they are created). With this past year of CC, you can easily see that while they released some improvements, they did save a few things for NAB and MAX, just so they could have a bigger announcement. But now they're done with that routine of song and dance each year and major announcments. Secondly, you'll see some experimental/beta features put out there, kind of like Google does. So these will be things like maybe a filter/effect that aren't 100% ready for prime time, but you get access to try it and improve/enhance it along the way, but without breaking your software as-is. Right now, Adobe sets up all these tests with groups of beta testers on a regular cycle to ready each new round of enhancements for each major annual release. I know people don't like to think of themselves as beta-testers, but personally, I'd love the opportunity to be involved in new ideas as they're coming along so that I can add my voice to the stuff Adobe is developing BEFORE they are realeased as final versions (at which point, everything devolves to feature requests instead, like "this is great, but please change it to do this instead becaues that's how I work").
There were a couple of feature updates that I didn't download right away for Photoshop, and I didn't get a reminder from Adobe saying "hey, you haven't downloaded that update yet, what's wrong with you? Get to it!!" So if they are planning to force every update down my throat in the future, they certainly haven't given me any cause for concern at the current time.
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