Skylum Luminar Neo went with a somewhat unique take on subscription pricing through extensions, but the general goal is still the same: to keep users paying over and over again. Last year, Pixelmator was basically forced to move to a subscription model in order to survive. With very few exceptions, subscription models are the norm.Ĭapture One, which is perhaps Adobe’s greatest competitor in the photography space, recently signaled that the time of perpetual software is over as those licenses will no longer receive new features. Software companies that don’t adopt Adobe’s wildly successful subscription strategy are basically left to languish well behind the San Jose-based giant. WebCatalog is part of the WebCatalog family of products.

Photographers who lament the death of perpetual software basically only have Adobe’s success to blame. Adobe Inc., originally called Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American multinational computer software company.

Last year, Adobe posted a record revenue of $17.61 billion, which represented a 15% year-over-year growth. Adobe obviously believes this to be the start of a strong fiscal year where, if this continues, the company will set yet another record year of revenues and profits. Pretty much every division saw a revenue increase.

The creative applications weren’t alone either.

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