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Something definitely wrong (none / 0) (#4)
by mklange on Tue Feb 27, 2007 at 12:58:12 PM PDT

There's definitely something wrong with this. If one of the previous posters required 3 hours to get Adobe to reactivate after moving machines (or sufficient hardware to make activation think it's on a new machine) think about what happens if everybody does this. I have at least 12 applications on my machine (13 if you count the OS). That means I would wind up spending 39 hours on the phone getting everything back on line -- that's a pretty big productivity hit. This is eventually going to do the same thing to computer and software sales that having to deal with car dealers has done to new car sales. People are going to have to be really desperate to get something new before going through the time and aggravation of dealing with all the nonsense, thus they are going to defer new purchases as long as possible, resulting in less sales than could have been had otherwise.


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