ITT we complain about Microsoft, Exxon Mobil, and everyone else's pricing decisions.

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The thing about adobe and autoCAD are you are paying them for a legit copy because they assume you are going to make money with them. If you get caught making money off them and they are pirated then you'll be in big trouble not just financially.
 
I understand that they're immensely useful and often taken for granted, but operating systems and major applications are still insanely expensive. If it were impossible for me to "acquire" Windows XP Pro, Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9, Sony Sound Forge 8, and Microsoft Office, I'd have no choice but to be a Linux user using homegrown apps. Not out of spite, but because I'm not made of money.

It wouldn't surprise me if offices, professional studios, and retail computers with pre-installed OSes are the only things keeping these companies afloat.
 
Probably are, I really can't see the "hobbist" or "average PC/mac" user paying the price for PS they are asking. It's just not going to happen not to mention the users needing to take a PS class to use even a tenth of what it's capable of. lol
 
V1P3R
The thing about adobe and autoCAD are you are paying them for a legit copy because they assume you are going to make money with them. If you get caught making money off them and they are pirated then you'll be in big trouble not just financially.
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Oh I don't use any of them for a profession, that's my mom's business, she designs houses with all that software. I remember my dad complaining for weeks about the software costing as much as a used car :lol:
 
TopHat
I'd rather complain about Adobe. Whats their deal. Waaay to expensive for photoshop.
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Year.Zero
Only someone who sucks with photoshop bashes photoshop. There's a reason it's on top.
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I do believe you missed TopHat's point by about 1.6 country kilometers, Year.Zero. He was only bashing the price, not the product. Besides, have you paid for your copy of it?

How about an $700 engine computer for my car? And that was a re-manufactured unit at cost. Since it's a 13-year-old car, the technology is likely outdated; nobody would pay that kind of money for anything else with a circuit board in it, unless it was going in a museum.

Lest I feel like a chump, double or even triple that price for what everyone else pays for ECU/ECMs.
 
V1P3R
I like how you convieniently left out Apple anyway... here.
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how did you pull off such an unexpected joke i am rolling on the floor lmbo seriously

:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: V1P3R :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:


For the record, I think the iPod Touch is immensely overrated, I hate the new designs of the iPod Nano, iMac, and the keyboard, and I looked just like Picard in the image I previously posted when I saw the price for an iPod dock. I sure love my (older) iMac and my iPod, but the only Apple product I would touch with a 5 foot pole is either an iTouch after a pricedrop, memory boost, or 1st party supported custom apps (ie no jailbreak bullcrap). Yes, my previous thread proclaiming my love to AAPL ($195.45 +0.61) was intentionally exaggerated and in some ways was a lie. Where is your god now?
 
Wolfe
I understand that they're immensely useful and often taken for granted, but operating systems and major applications are still insanely expensive. If it were impossible for me to "acquire" Windows XP Pro, Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9, Sony Sound Forge 8, and Microsoft Office, I'd have no choice but to be a Linux user using homegrown apps. Not out of spite, but because I'm not made of money.
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If it were impossible to copy/crack them, they would be cheaper anyway. Piracy keeps software prices artificially high.
 
Meh, I still prefer iWork, if only for the pretty graphs. I do love Keynote, though. I know that's not strictly what this thread is about, but why not...
 
Jondot
Meh, I still prefer iWork, if only for the pretty graphs. I do love Keynote, though. I know that's not strictly what this thread is about, but why not...
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I'd love to love iWork, but the way it handles fonts is... unpleasant, to say the least.
 
Once more about the price of the Adobe CS3 products. They're the culmination of the saying "it's not the crazy one who asks, but who pays" as Adobe's products, especially Photoshop, are considered to be "the Thing" nowadays. They could charge $1500 for it and people would pay it, because it's something designers think they can't live without. In reality they would be completely OK 98% of the time with the $100 Corel Paint Shop Pro. Hell, they would be OK for most of the time with the $0 Gimp.

I'm not saying that Photoshop is bad, I'm saying it isn't worth seven times the money needed to purchase the PSP. Not in the use most people buy it for.

Personally I can't understand how damn much soft drinks cost here. A litre and a half of water, some artificial colours, a few drops of something that makes the taste, a bit of some sweetener, something to make it bubble - and charge $3 for the bottle. Nuts.
 
Bram Turismo
I've got the latest Photoshop, AutoCAD and ArchiCAD on our computer, you can never guess how much those last 2 cost...Compared with PS, PS is nearly free...
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Isn't AutoCAD like dozens of thousands of dollars? At least for group licences?
 
ROAD_DOGG33J
All I have to say is textbooks are expensive, but thank god for used textbooks.
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Agreed, we are broke college kids yet they force us to buy books that we will hardly ever use. I'm getting smarter though, last semester I only bought two of the 16 books I was required to get and got through with a 3.7 GPA. Goes to show you how much you do not need them.
 

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