Recently Adobe released that they will no longer be selling Photoshop as a boxed software product and than instead you would need to sign up to a monthly or annual subscription. This has caused a few discussions on the social media sites and throughout the press as it is a rather large change and could potentially lose them business. Many small businesses and individuals would buy a version of Photoshop and use it for years having only had to pay a one off fee for the software, with this no longer an option they are now being forced in to paying for it monthly or finding an alternative.
For some this monthly cost is going to eat in to an already tight budget. There are some advantages of the cloud based subscription software which allows Adobe to update it on your PC as and when without having to wait to add all the updates to a new software release version, but for many they often find that the updates are not all that significant for them so they would not have normally upgraded to a newer version anyway.