![]() ![]() Version support is something we should all be paying more attention to, because as technology moves quickly, support for older systems is dropped, again not just by Adobe but by Apple too. That doesn’t make it the best for us, but simplifying to keep costs down is a common reason companies don’t offer every possible option. ![]() Supporting fewer versions is much easier for a company to manage, and so is supporting fewer purchase options. But adding options complicates things, which is why many companies want to keep it simple. There may be other ways to make this easier, and you can submit any ideas you have to the Ideas section of this community, where requests are discussed and voted on. Or, maybe Adobe could allow the entire application to operate after you have paid a certain amount in subscription fees, like $500. There are some subscription apps on my phone where there is a Lifetime option where you pay once, and I have paid that for some of them. I am not saying this is a perfect situation. So, someone would be able to continue organizing, exporting, and printing work already completed, and that is more than you will get from other subscription services where you can’t do anything after stopping payment. But here, most of Lightroom Classic actually continues to work only the Develop module is disabled. Because with most subscription services, the entire application stops working if you stop paying. Now, believe it or not, that is actually a better deal. That isn’t sustainable, so they chose to disable the Develop module. The question is why Adobe disable development module if we stop to pay because we cannot be eligible to upgrades anymore ? By answer might be that if the Develop module continued to operate, then it would be possible to pay for only one month and cancel, but keep using it after only having paid a very low price. Thans in advance for yur advives and help, In addition is there somebody how to contact directly ADOBE to mention them this subject beacause I do not find any link or phone number anymore ? May be I missed it, There is nothing strange in these commercial practices ? At least, either modules should not be deactivated if subscription price is not change or subscription price should be decreased. Of course there is also Photoshop in the subsrciption but the same will occur soon, no reason and tahen at the end if you want to continue to develop your photos with Lightroom, you have to pay for NO SERVICE, each year you have to pay for the cost of a perpetual License but you have nothing in return. ![]() So you continue to pay yearly for NOTHING. now with subscription, you are obliged to pay to continue to use your current version of Lightroom as if you stop to pay, Development module is desactivated as indicated in the Adobe support pages. when it was perpetual License, you stopped to pay for new relaese and that's it It is not new that some operating systems are no more supported and at a given point, it is client choice to continue to use it and then to not take profit of new Lightroom releases BUT If I hadn’t already bought a newer Mac, now would be the time to budget for one. If you must use the latest versions, the practical service life of a Mac is about 7 to 8 years from its original release date (not the date you bought it).īased on this well-established pattern, I already know that my older Mac (2018) is only one or two away from Apple no longer providing macOS updates for it. When a Mac reaches that last year of support, the two choices are to not upgrade, so you can continue to operate current versions indefinitely or work a new Mac into the budget for purchase within 12 to 24 months, or whenever you’ll start to require the latest software. ![]() Next fall we can reliably guess they will be macOS 15, 14, and 13. For example, if macOS 11 was the last macOS that a Mac could run last fall, then it was already known that in 1 year that Mac would no longer be supported because this year, both Apple and Adobe would ratchet their supported versions up to macOS 14, 13, and 12. Once a Mac gets to the point where it can only run the oldest of the three currently supported versions of macOS, the clock is ticking: In one year it will lose support. macOS 11 fell off when macOS 14 was released. So, every year at about this time, they add the new one and drop the oldest one. They both started this policy a few years ago. The fact is, both Adobe and Apple provide update support for only the last three versions of macOS, which are currently macOS 14, 13, and 12. Unfortunately, support is a rolling target that can’t be stopped, so it has to be part of the budget to keep hardware up to date with the latest software. ![]()
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