Adobe now offers subcriptions, as low as $49 a month

This week Adobe launched a new subscription based pricing model for its creative suite products.  Instead of paying a large one-time fee for a perpetual license, customers can pay a monthly subscription fee to have access to Adobe’s creative products (chart on left provided by Digital Inspiration).  This pushes price points for products like Adobe Photoshop down from $699 to $49/month (or $35/month for a yearly subscription).  While critics point out that this monthly rate makes little sense for long-term users, their logic also points to the ingenuity of Adobe’s pricing structure:...