If you'd been to an Adobe Max conference you'd know how unimportant the imaging products are in Adobe's portfolio.
That may well be true: my impression (as a former institutional customer) is that a large portion of Adobe's revenue is attributable to volume purchasers.
the imaging products are . . .
now just a side line. Which why they don't care about the small customers anymore.
Actually, I would argue just the opposite: the
photography plan for Lightroom and Photoshop seems to have been crafted as a special concessionary price for single and low-volume purchasers.
Adobe's future is not in imaging products, as Schewe has implied before.
On this site? Can you provide a link to where he said that? I recall that he has made the point that photographers constitute a small proportion of Adobe's customer base, but it's also my recollection that he said it in a context where he was making the same point I made above: that the company's subscription offerings actually
favor low-volume licensees.
I don't feel any particular "loyalty" to Adobe,* but I use Lightroom and Photoshop almost every day, and several of the company's other products less frequently, and until I find better or equally functional and less-expensive alternatives, I'm comfortable with both Adobe's price-point and the convenience of keeping my software up-to-date.
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*Or any other software vendor, for that matter. I'm satisfied with my Apple hardware, but their software support policy really pisses me off: they almost never acknowledge unresolved bugs (or, often, even resolved ones). But, as Tony Soprano used to say, "whaddayagonnado?"
