Originally posted by Docrwm the full specifications are out (and we've read ALL the mice type in the contract) we'll not know for certain
This Creative Cloud product has been out many months, so there is a lot of certainty and known facts. I wouldn't be surprised if within three years Adobe will make it fairly difficult to use CS6 (the last non-sub product), but there are competing products. If I was a competitor, I would be developing an Adobe transition kit right now that can import Lightroom and ACR catalog data and replicate their functionalities without much hassle. If I was Adobe, I'd offer a buck-a-month rental for Lightroom 5.x for a year as a come-on.
As with vonBaloney, I'm not happy about the subscription model, but "cloud computing" is highly secure and very well proven. Many--if not most--corporations use software-as-a-service Internet-based applications that generates highly sensitive and proprietary data, which is stored on the cloud of the customer's choice. Just not much of an issue anymore to a few hundred million.
While there have been a few high visibility security issues with some cloud-based services, I don't know how dire the results have been. I would like see a comparison between cloud-based data-loss "disasters" vs. home-based user-caused ones. With home-based data storage, I wonder how frequently:
a. the user will mistakenly delete key data
b. the user's spouse will mistakenly or willingly delete key data
c. the user's offspring will mistakenly or willingly delete key data
d. the user's offspring's friends will mistakenly or willing delete key data
e. an intruder or thief will disappear key data
f. a physical event will disappear key data
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