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I guess when you get people to pay for your product who REALLY REALLY don't want to, where every fiber of them screams, I DON'T WANT TO PAY, you got a winner on your hands. When a friend of mine spent $20 a month on a ChatGPT subscription, I couldn't believe it, he is very frugal with this stuff as well.

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I hate spending money on software. I pirated Adobe Creative Suite for years. I really, really did not want to pay the $55/month for a Creative Cloud subscription, but I had to. There are no great alternatives to Photoshop + Premiere + After Effects. I have Affinity Photo, I have Da Vinci Resolve, and Fusion. But at the end of the day Adobe makes the best video production/animation software. I reluctantly bought a subscription and it's been worth it for me. I still hate Adobe's business practices but their software is still extremely well made.

I so often see people complaining about the price of Adobe tools saying it's over the top or greedy, but then they continue to pay and use it despite cheaper alternatives existing.

Consider that the reason their software is so much better than the rest is _because_ they charge this much and can reinvest it in to the software.

Cheaper alternatives. Not superior ones.

>Consider that the reason their software is so much better than the rest is _because_ they charge this much and can reinvest it in to the software.

LOL!!

I think most people here would be happy to pay for a 5 year old version of Photoshop if they could pay a flat price for it.

That would cut revenue from the product and slow development. Letting some other product take over as the best tool.

That should be the definition of product market fit

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