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Adobe’s bargain UK pricing?
Friday, February 6th, 2009
The argument can certainly be made that Adobe’s various Creative Suite offerings provide good value for money – assuming that you make full use of every component. However as I wrote in my review “they certainly don’t come cheap. At least not in the UK”.
What was so galling was the disparity between UK and US pricing. Comparing the UK and US prices for the full Master Collection – £1969 (£2264 inc VAT) and US$2499 – I pointed out that ”even with sterling at a two-year low against the dollar, at the time of writing that should equate to a price of around £1350. That’s a saving of over £600 before VAT – over 30% – enough to pay for a transatlantic trip.” Our esteemed editor,Tim Danton, had been so incensed by the pricing difference for Acrobat 9 Pro Extended that he started a rip-off pricing campaign.
Well things have certainly changed since then and suddenly Adobe’s current UK pricing is looking something of a bargain…
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Tags: adobe, cs4, digital design, pricing
Posted in: Real World Computing, Software
Adobe CS4 – First Thoughts
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Now that the dust has cleared on the launch of Acrobat 9 thoughts naturally turn to Adobe’s next major release Creative Suite 4. So what might we expect to see?
Well the launch of Acrobat 9 might well give us a very strong clue. The Acrobat applications are focussed on the business/office productivity market, but the introduction of new PDF capabilities gives the CS teams something to work with. And with Acrobat 9 that’s an understatement…
Tags: acrobat, adobe, creative suite, cs4, Flash, pdf, swf
Posted in: Real World Computing, Software
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