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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Using subscription-based services to provide stuff you depend on, particularly the ones where there's no alternative (like the Adobe software), just isn't smart.
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Nonsense. There are plenty of non-subscription alternatives to Adobe.
There are even articles specifically calling those options out. Heck, for the vast majority of home users, Photoshop Elements is affordable and is probably going to yield better results with less effort than the full blown Photoshop.
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And yes, I do think some subscription-based services are both wrong and evil.
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Yes, the ones where they force people to subscribe and drag the fees out of their bank account no matter what they say. Yep, those are the evil ones.
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You pay for convenience. You pay to NOT have control over you stuff, including what you're going to pay in the future. If people keep adding subscription-based services, they'll be paying tens if not hundreds of euro's a year, and the rates in the future will only go up.
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I pay for peace of mind. I pay for insurance. To me, that's what Dropbox is. You MUST have offsite backups of files to be secure. Dropbox happens to be a real-time offsite backup. I could give an external hard drive to a friend, or put it in a safe deposit box and that would also qualify as an offsite backup....but only as often as I update that copy. I could lose all of the family photos I've scanned and it would cost me the time it took to scan them - hundreds of hours. In the event that my house burned down, or was flooded or something, and I lost not only the digital copies but the originals too? That is quite literally priceless. I pay $8.25 a month for a TB of storage, and it's the cheapest insurance I have. If Dropbox no longer met my needs, I'd look at one of their competitors. This is not "wrong and evil". It is a much appreciated service.