I could not agree more, I didn't make a subscription earlier in my course because I felt uneasy about just "renting" the product, rather than buying it outright. Turns out I was totally and completely correct.
There's also odd things like having to download another application to uninstall the Creative Cloud, which seems like it could have been included in the CC itself, but maybe not. It does seem like they're making it more of a ball ache in the hopes you won't actually do it. Or is that just total paranoid idiocy on my part?
>>25479 So, to be clear, you knowingly signed up for a year-long contract, and just wanted to cancel partway? I can see why they wanted the money, and you're lucky that the person on the other end was in a good mood.
Just be aware that if they do take the money, you may be able to request a chargeback but you'd be committing fraud if you did.
It could reasonably be argued that the ubiquity of proprietary file formats is a form of monopolistic coercion. If you do professional graphics work, using Adobe software is effectively mandatory for interoperability reasons. Adobe make it deliberately difficult for other software developers to support .psd or .ai files.
>>25483 That would only hold if you were somehow being forced to do professional graphics work. If you don't want to deal with paying them, go work for someone else instead of going freelance. If you don't want to deal with them at all, take up a different trade. Also, nobody who buys a Mac gets to complain about how expensive Adobe shit is.
In a choice between having wasted 8 months and reasonable sums of money in pursuit of a qualification, and getting my own subscription to the Adobe service, I would argue only the latter option was acceptable, and therefore I had no real choice at all.
>>25485 >In a choice between having wasted 8 months and reasonable sums of money in pursuit of a qualification, and getting my own subscription to the Adobe service
But that's not a choice you were forced to make, is it? Who chose to do the course? Who chose a provider that doesn't give you access to the software you need to complete the course?
>Who said I owned a Mac?
Who said that was aimed specifically at you?
You know what, I don't care. You seem like one of those people who has to play amateur defence lawyer whenever there's any kind of issue. Relax, or don't, it's whatever.
Rahul sorted it, I got my project done, and you may as well not exist.