I had the free trial for 2 days before cancelling. We watched the first two episodes of Mandalorian then learned that I would be “fed” the other episodes when Disney decided it was OK for me to watch. We were able to add the app on our Roku and use our Roku Acct to sign up for the free trial, which was easy and painless (as was cancelling). Managing your subscriptions through Roku is great. Once we recieved an error message while trying to watch but it worked upon a second attempt. After the first two episodes of Mandalorian, I began looking at what else was available. I was excited about Pixar, Marvel, and Disney, then realized I already have most of Marvel on Blu-ray, as well as Pixar, and not really interested in reliving my animated youth with Disney. So, we cancelled our trial. I don’t think Netflix has much to worry about anytime soon. Let’s hope Apple can learn from this.
I always get excited about new technology that provides alternatives to Adobe. Alternatives, options, and innovation is good. ;-)
After being an Adobe user from almost the beginning, I ended my ongoing relationship with them when they switched to their Creative Cloud subscription model. I was even in their early release program. But it was clear to me then, as it is here, that this is nothing more than a bow to shareholders, C-suites, and the bottom line at the expense of their customers. Not only that, but I watched the quality and innovation of Adobe's products wane with CC, falling behind their competitors. And why should they innovate, when they don't have to convince users anymore that they've done anything to warrant paying for an upgrade. Many users began skipping annual upgrades, as I did. I think that might have been their problem prior to CC to be honest.
Although I had been considering Capture One as a replacement for my aging Perpetual Adobe Lightroom product, I no longer am following this announcement. I simply refuse to support any company that forces a subscription model on their customers for major industry products, and/or punishes anyone who chooses to remain a perpetual customer, ESPECIALLY in the way this was done.
Creatives need to think about how they will access old projects once they stop paying their monthly dues? For example, with my perpetual Adobe Creative Suite products, I can still access web site data stores created with GoLive CS3, and films I created with Premiere/Audition/Ae/Speedgrade. Do that with your canceled subscription.
Consumers have the power to end this subscription model nonsense by choosing perpetual alternatives and/or open source solutions, along with the many other reputable companies who continue to offer perpetual licenses, like Black Magic Design with their DaVinci Resolve. The latter is a premier example of a good business model. $300 for Resolve Studio with lifetime free upgrades along with an EXCELLENT suite of HW products. The speed of innovation with which BMD continually improves their products puts Adobe to shame.
Who needs Adobe? Or Capture One?