blog Wondering why Adobe suddenly harmonised some of its Creative Cloud Australian pricing this week? Well, the move may have something to do with the company’s summons to appear before the parliamentary committee examining Australian IT price markups. It may also have something to do with a visit to Sydney by the vendor’s global president and chief executive Shantanu Narayen. Adobe today invited the press to attend a launch tomorrow morning in Sydney with the executive:

“Adobe’s President and CEO Shantanu Narayen will be joined by Senator Stephen Conroy and NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell to officially open Adobe’s new Sydney office and demonstration facility.”

Delimiter will be in attendance with a video camera in tow to watch the chief executive take questions from the media about … what else? The fact that Adobe charges up to $1,400 more for the exact same software sold in Australia, compared with the same product in the US. Let’s hope Narayen can come up with some satisfactory answers: We haven’t heard any so far.

Image credit: Jolie O’Dell, Creative Commons

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1. jingo
   Posted 13/02/2013 at 2:44 pm | Permalink | Reply

   “Delimiter will be in attendance with a video camera in tow”

   nice!

   • Paul Thompson
     Posted 13/02/2013 at 3:06 pm | Permalink | Reply

     He means “in toe”; the camera is hidden in his shoe.

     On behalf of Delimiter can you ask him how he breathes with his mouth closed and a savagely deviated septum?

     • GongGav
       Posted 13/02/2013 at 3:55 pm | Permalink | Reply

       And while you’re trashing his features, let him know that Adam Gilchrist will be wanting his ears back before he leaves the country…

2. GongGav
   Posted 13/02/2013 at 2:55 pm | Permalink | Reply

   Got your questions ready to go? Hopefully a few of us will think of some for you throughout the afternoon, giving you plenty of ammo for tomorrow.

   • Renai LeMay
     Posted 13/02/2013 at 3:04 pm | Permalink | Reply

     I *always* have questions :)

     It sometimes happens at press conferences that the other journos run out of questions and I’m still going; in fact could go for another 45min :) It happened at the recent Oracle co-CEO press conference :)

     • GongGav
       Posted 13/02/2013 at 3:57 pm | Permalink | Reply

       Good man.

       Do you have anything ready asking whether Adobe, Apple, and/or Microsoft have had mutual talks regarding the escalating Senate ‘hostilities’ towards them? Of not, can you add it to your list?

       Cheers.

     • Trevor
       Posted 13/02/2013 at 4:40 pm | Permalink | Reply

       Speaking of, did you run a story with the results of that interview? If so I must have missed it…

       GL tomorrow – I would be unsurprised if they refused to answer any questions that weren’t ‘on topic’.

       • Renai LeMay
         Posted 13/02/2013 at 5:40 pm | Permalink | Reply

         http://delimiter.com.au/2013/01/22/cloud-burst-oracle-reveals-second-australian-datacentre/

         http://delimiter.com.au/2013/01/25/board-level-dialogue-key-to-nab-oracle-overhaul/

     • Dan
       Posted 13/02/2013 at 9:53 pm | Permalink | Reply

       Go get ‘em tiger!

3. Nigel
   Posted 13/02/2013 at 3:11 pm | Permalink | Reply

   Hmm, CS6 Master Collection in the US $2599 US which is $2515 AU based on todays rate on xe.com.
   To buy the same digital download from Adobe in Australia is $4344 AU. They also state that GST applicable to shipped goods only so I gather they can’t use the old GST chestnut.

   Thats a massive 72% Aussie Tax.
   Thanks Adobe

   • Dean
     Posted 14/02/2013 at 11:41 am | Permalink | Reply

     It’s literally cheaper to fly to the US, buy it there, and fly back than to buy it in Australia.

4. Harri
   Posted 13/02/2013 at 5:21 pm | Permalink | Reply

   Time for some monstering! Be merciless, take no prisoners!

5. Brendan
   Posted 13/02/2013 at 5:43 pm | Permalink | Reply

   I somehow doubt the “Can you explain the validation for an ~70% markup difference, for an identical, digitally delivered product?” question will be answered.

   Either at the Sydney launch, or Inquiry.

   • Dan
     Posted 13/02/2013 at 9:55 pm | Permalink | Reply

     I’m sure he will have a prepared, completely political (non) answer for that one

6. SMEMatt
   Posted 14/02/2013 at 11:44 am | Permalink | Reply

   There is one of two companies ripping us off.
   Adobe who could be selling into the Australian market at a rip off price (isn’t this a form of transfer pricing another chance to get em Hustic) or Adobe Australia are ripping of the the channel, I wonder who own them. I know for a fact retail margins on adobe products are not 70%+.

   He looks foreign and is taking our money better deport him to Manus island just in case.

7. Peter Kelley
   Posted 14/02/2013 at 1:47 pm | Permalink | Reply

   Is it my imagination or does he look like a Sontaran http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sontaran ? It would be a good sort of question for the Chaser boys to ask :)

8. Northern Blue
   Posted 15/02/2013 at 7:41 am | Permalink | Reply

   I watched the video on the previous Delimiter link. It is fairly obvious that the pricing differential is deliberate. The CEO couldn’t think of an excuse and frankly couldn’t give a damn. We have people using their product and it won’t be being upgraded. They can use the current purchased version only with no further upgrades and/or find an alternative.

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