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Ed Husic Slams Adobe Over Forced Creative Cloud Move
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Australia Tax Inquiry Live Blog: Unbelievable Testimony As It Happened
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Ed Husic Resigns: Whip In Exile Following Leadership Spill
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Don't Believe The Adobe Price Cut Hype, It's Still Gouging You Silly
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Adobe Concedes, Vows To Cut Some Australian Prices After Government Pressure
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Why You Should Be Worried About The Australia Tax Inquiry Now More Than Ever
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Ed Husic Slams Adobe Over Forced Creative Cloud Move
What we all feared would happen, happened this morning when Adobe announced at its annual conference that it would move away from boxed Creative Suite software and push everyone into a subscription payment model with Creative Cloud. You’d never guess but the Government’s IT pricing crusader, Ed Husic, is displeased with Adobe. Again.
Record Companies To Be Dragged Before IT Pricing Inquiry
At Friday’s hearings into IT price gouging in Australia, Apple’s local MD, Tony King, tried to absolve the gadget giant of responsibility for local iTunes mark-ups by throwing the blame directly at record companies. As a result, those record companies are about to be given an opportunity to explain themselves before the Committee at yet another hearing.
How Bad Is The Apple Tax In Australia?
As Apple faces the IT Pricing Inquiry — and the inquiry’s instigator Ed Husic resigns as Government Whip — one Aussie blogger has crunched the numbers on Apple’s pricing strategy down under.
Don’t Believe The Adobe Price Cut Hype, It’s Still Gouging You Silly
Late yesterday, we brought you the news that Adobe had buckled under the pressure of the Australia Tax inquiry brought on by the government and lowered local pricing to bring it more in line with US counterparts. You might thank benevolent Adobe for finally coming around to our way of thinking, but I’m here to tell you why you should be as angry with them as ever.
Adobe Concedes, Vows To Cut Some Australian Prices After Government Pressure
After the Australian government issued legal notices to Adobe, Apple and Microsoft yesterday to quiz them over gouging Australians, one of the major vendors in question has chosen to surrender. According to a statement, Adobe will drop prices in Australia after years of gouging.
Why You Should Be Worried About The Australia Tax Inquiry Now More Than Ever
Hell hath no fury like a Government scorned. At least that’s the message that came out of Parliament both last week and yesterday afternoon when the government slapped legal orders on Apple, Microsoft and Adobe to force them before the Australia Tax inquiry. Before we all collectively congratulate the government for showing its teeth to the private sector for a change, we need to understand what a gamble this is for the inquiry.
