I am forced to operate on a tight budget due to limited finances. Among other things, that means no Adobe Photoshop or other expensive image editing software.
Turns out there's a huge drawback with Photoshop.
If Adobe's servers go out, you can't use your applications. A brief interruption is one thing, but the server problem has lasted nearly 24 hours. Some photographers can get around the problem by using applications offline in "trial mode."
Unfortunately, this doesn't work for everyone. Some photographers have found that their applications won't go into trial mode. The application is set so that the "Trail Period" has expired. The only way to fix this is to log into Adobe's server. You know. The one that is currently down.
Adobe already antagonized photographers by moving to the Crowd Computing model. Now it has just reinforced the idea that its CC business model is a bad idea for its customers.
I suspect that many current Photoshop users are going to start looking for viable alternatives. This is especially true for professional photographers whose livelihood depend on reliable image editing software. One that becomes unusable for 24 hours because the software company's servers go down doesn't fit that need.
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