I use five Adobe CS apps daily - Audition, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat Pro. The Creative Cloud model is actually considerably less expensive than keeping those up to date. I'd fallen into updating them every 2nd or 3rd release owing to the expense. Now they're updated frequently -and- I have sampled some other apps that I'd never have purchased because of infrequent need. It remains to be seen if Adobe can resist increasing the price for a subscription every year the way my ISP and cellphone carrier do...(while adding no value).

This behavior is inevitable. Content providers that are *also* carriers will inevitably lead to this. The FCC should have stopped this in its tracks years ago but now it's too late. Feckless anti-trust enforcement for a generation doesn't help either.