Both Hulu and Netflix are passive entertainment services where you watch the content provided while the Creative Cloud is a product where you create with the tools. One might argue that this is a business decision but comparing a Creative Cloud trial to that of Hulu and Netflix is comparing apples to oranges. If it is a relatively small number that use the trial from day 8 – 30 then Adobe doesn’t stand to make that much more money by forcing a trial user to sign up for an account in that 3 week trial period that is now business, and one might argue, with precedent.
ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD TRIAL INSTALL
I’m guessing that when you install the trial your system pings the Adobe servers and they can see how often during a trial period the demo is used and they found that the majority of people aren’t using it beyond the first 7 days. But this extreme reduction in the length of the trial worries me.įirst, it’s the bean counter corporate crap reasoning in Adobe’s statement that tells us nothing behind the reasoning:Įnsure that trial lengths align more accurately with how trials are being used Other than that I think it’s fair way to license and an incredible value if you use 3 or more applications in the Creative Cloud suite of tools. I’ve never had that much of an issue with the monthly Adobe subscription licensing model other than wishing there was a video focus bundle that could save me a few bucks every month. #AdobeĪdobe had been testing this trial reduction back in January it seems and some users were seeing 7 day trials when the CC install stated 30 days. Trial Period is now changed from 30 days to 7 days. This feels to me like the first scary change in the Adobe cloud licensing model. No reason was cited other than to “ensure that trial lengths align more accurately with how trials are being used” which means absolutely nothing other than the beans counters were counting beans and the end user will be the ones who lose out. That’s about a 75% reduction in time that you can run the Creative Cloud suite before you have to pay up.
Word came down from the Creative Cloud yesterday that Adobe is changing its trial period from 30 days, reducing it down to 7 days.
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