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And that cost per month is for a 12 month contract that if you try to cancel early will require you to pay 1/2 of the remaining contract to get out of it. You cancel on day 32... that'll be 5.5 x your monthly payment to cancel.

Adobe makes all of this insanely hard to understand and fully grasp as a consumer. It's also almost completely unique in software licensing. I tried to find out when my current 'contract' was up a couple months ago and it was nowhere in their website account section nor in the Adobe Creative Cloud app on my PC that I could find. I had to call them and wait something like 30 minutes on hold to find out.

I wound up getting an extremely discounted rate for a year, but I now know the date it will end and have set reminders to cancel before and have begun transitioning to DaVinci Resolve now and will start transitioning to Affinity soon.



Adobe should explain it as “it’s exactly like your rent contract”. Because that’s what it is. Rent seeking.

Software rent seeking. Not even the greatest dystopian sci-fi writers could come up with this one.


Yep.

It reminds me of the shenanigans that Sirius radio does, esp here in Canada where there is less protections against it.




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