Well, this is a coffee shop, and among returning coffee drinkers no discussion will ever be to long or finished - only rested for a while - in between.
Personally I find the Cloud concept intimidating and I have to address businesses that works only one way - in this case to make Adobe earn disproportionally more for largely the same product that was earlier offered as a one buy.
In practical life it doesn't matter if I buy the right to use an intellectual property or I think I buy the property - as long as the property is physically present - as when handed over to me the day I paid for it - or it was downloaded and is now stored on my hard disk in an executable and portable quality. I can use it whenever I like, and nobody can hinder me.
When I use my Ps CS5 on my computer nobody ask for more money. That is good. That is what property feels like. Nobody can interfere with my work, not Adobe, not the Internet operator, nobody.
When I use Ps Cloud I have to pay more for largely the same product. I have to pay without any limit. If I stop paying, Ps CC stops working. So, somebody must be monitoring if my payments are synchronized with my use of the product. If the Internet should stop, caused by a temporary war somewhere, I would be hindered to pay, so I would be unable to work. This principle is an obvious threat to anyone's business - and the bizarre reality is, that we have to pay more for a higher risk - much more. In fact we all have to pay for ever, if it wasn't for the fact, that some of us can calculate.
Two years renting and I have paid for the product for the rest of my life - or so it was earlier. Now Adobe wants to earn more for the same value, and who is asked - you? - or me? No, nobody from the paying mob was ever asked. Adobe just recognized that their product had reached a state of irreplaceability around the world, so the time had come for exorbitant demands.
And it seems to work. As long as people say: "Like it or not, Cloud has come to stay ..." Adobe can go on playing their pay-or-go-away-game and laugh all the way to the bank.
Luckily, as I mentioned earlier, Adobe's products are circulated for free, not legally of course, but if you want to run a minor risk, you can have the most used CC 2015 applications without the Cloud. Even I don't like it. Why can't Adobe get enough? Why do they have to squeeze their customers until they are ready to "crack"? To day an army of crackers are ready to crack every new release, and it will not be possible to stop them, as long as the code runs on several million computers around the world. Why is Adobe pushing honest customers into the arms of the crackers?
Greed or blindness? Anyway, this policy has harmed my view on Adobe. Arrogance is not my cup of coffee.
Until Adobe gets wiser - more than a few should raise their voices against the Cloud insanity. Otherwise we have not yet seen the end of the squeezing game.