Adobe's Creative Suite is to become an $80-a-month subscription service, with discounts for people who accept annual contracts: just like cellphones! Thankfully, you can still buy the retail version of the suite in various pre-set bundles: just like cable television!
… the company expects that most of its users will slowly migrate to the subscription service over time. In Adobe's view, this gives users more flexibility to use apps when they need them … while Morris stressed that the subscription service shouldn't be seen solely as a way to combat piracy, he did acknowledge that it has the potential to help Adobe with its piracy problem.
If we have to ruin our product to stop people pirating it, by God we will do just that. [Frederic Lardinois at TechCrunch]
