>>I go on vacation for 3 weeks to a remote desert island and take my computer with me.
Er, remote desert island. Big oops. I live in New Zealand. And for those of us who live here, at the centre of the universe, North America is a remote desert island. Decentre, eh.
Your phrase suggests that this is the most unlikely or most idiosyncratic of use cases. Not so, there are a number of places I may go, and go for longer than 3 weeks, where there is no connection or to travel to the nearest place where there is one just to re-activate X1 is serious time and cost (e.g. many bush locations in NZ due to the terrain, places in Samoa, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Norfolk Island, Nauru, Tuvalu, Tonga, Fiji etc, or islands in Thailand - these places are not "remote" and they are not "desert" islands, that's city talk).
And, extending the time period is not a fix. The problem is that X1 actually shuts down when it cannot get an Internet connection. My Acrobat, CS6, iTunes, or Dragon don't do this.
X1 is the best of the bunch by far but who crunched the numbers on this? (loss of customers from intrusive activation vs what's the upside?)
Your need to "manage" your software is not my problem. If you make it intolerably so, I will find another product.
Er, remote desert island. Big oops. I live in New Zealand. And for those of us who live here, at the centre of the universe, North America is a remote desert island. Decentre, eh.
Your phrase suggests that this is the most unlikely or most idiosyncratic of use cases. Not so, there are a number of places I may go, and go for longer than 3 weeks, where there is no connection or to travel to the nearest place where there is one just to re-activate X1 is serious time and cost (e.g. many bush locations in NZ due to the terrain, places in Samoa, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Norfolk Island, Nauru, Tuvalu, Tonga, Fiji etc, or islands in Thailand - these places are not "remote" and they are not "desert" islands, that's city talk).
And, extending the time period is not a fix. The problem is that X1 actually shuts down when it cannot get an Internet connection. My Acrobat, CS6, iTunes, or Dragon don't do this.
X1 is the best of the bunch by far but who crunched the numbers on this? (loss of customers from intrusive activation vs what's the upside?)
Your need to "manage" your software is not my problem. If you make it intolerably so, I will find another product.
