#Software Cheaper

[cdrbsoftwares1]

Navigating The World Of Cheap Software: Unveiling The Benefits Of Software Discount Stores

The use of software has grown ubiquitous in the modern digital world. The need for software is continuously increasing, driven by several factors such as productivity, creativity, and enjoyment. Still, many people, especially those running smaller enterprises or attending college, don't have the financial means to purchase the most recent software releases. A software discount store is a great idea since it offers a low-priced solution without sacrificing quality.

The Rise Of Cheap Software

The days of shelling out a considerable fortune to have first-rate software are over. Many apps are now accessible to a broader audience because of the growth of cheap software. Inexpensive software just indicates that there are less expensive solutions that are functionally similar to more expensive ones, not that inexpensive software is of lower quality.

One of the critical advantages of cheap software is the ability to stay up to date with the latest technological advancements without breaking the budget. Affordably priced software options are accessible to fulfill the various needs of both students and aspiring business owners, offering essential resources for scholarly assignments and streamlining business processes.

Software Discount Stores: A Treasure Trove Of Savings

For individuals searching for high-quality software at significantly reduced prices, the idea of a software discount store has arisen as a refuge. Software makers use these online platforms to provide bundle bundles, promotional discounts, and reduced licenses. You may find a plethora of deals by exploring these stores. Users may now access pricey applications without breaking the bank.

Benefits Of Software Discount Stores

Aside from the discounts, a software discount store provides a variety of advantages that meet the varied demands of customers:

Affordability:

The huge discounts offered by software discount retailers are the most apparent advantage. Depending on the platform and the campaigns run by software developers, users can take advantage of discounts ranging from 20% to 70% or even more.

Access To Premium Brands:

These shops frequently collaborate with well-known software developers. Customers may get their hands on items from market leaders at a steep discount. It guarantees that high-quality software is accessible to consumers and enterprises.

Frequent Promotions And Bundles:

Sale events, seasonal bargains, and software bundles are commonplace at cheap software retailers. Users may take advantage of time-sensitive sales and save the most money by buying many apps simultaneously.

Upgrades And Updates:

Upgrades to more recent software versions are often available at a discount at some software discount outlets. Because of this, consumers can be sure they will always have access to the most recent updates and features. You may do all that without shelling out cash for an entirely new license.

License Authenticity:

The legitimacy of software licenses is a top priority for reputable software discount businesses. It safeguards the software's authenticity and functionality and the availability of customer service and updates for the end customers.

Tips For Navigating Software Discount Stores

Following our discussion of the benefits of software discount retailers, we will go into several strategies for making the most of these sites:

Research the Platform: Perform thorough research on the software discount store before purchasing. Read reviews and customer testimonials to ensure the platform is legit and trustworthy.

Compare Prices: Even for identical software, prices could change across various platforms. Before making a purchase, shopping around and comparing prices is a good idea.

Check Software Compatibility: Before purchasing the discounted version, check the software's compatibility with your OS and hardware requirements. It will ensure no compatibility or other problems after the purchase.

Conclusion

With the advent of software discount stores, a new paradigm in software procurement has emerged, allowing more people access to robust tools. By utilizing these platforms, consumers may enjoy the advantages of premium cheap software without the financial burden. Consequently, the next time you look for software solutions, you should check out cheap retailers. You'll find a world of choices at costs that are hard to surpass.

[beardedmrbean]

[ghirahimbo]

What program do you use for your digital art? Just curious because I'm looking to buy some software! Thank you!

Oh yeah, no problem! I tend to go between Photoshop (I get student pricing through my husband) and Procreate. These days, I mostly use Procreate because it's more convenient to paint on a tablet, but I still like Photoshop, especially for formatting and finishing touches.

That being said, I know there are computer programs that are cheaper/non-subscription/non-Adobe, all of which would be a plus :P For instance I think I had a professor who worked for Blizzard who was a huge fan of Corel Painter? If you're just starting out, I'd definitely experiment a bit with 30-day trials and such to see what you like! I've just been painting on Photoshop for 15 years, soooo yeah, switching feels intimidating at this point :')

Anyone with experience outside of those two programs is free to jump onto this post, of course ;) Good luck!

[virmire]

I’m considering if I should get an iPad for my birthday in November so I’m not just tied to my computer for drawing digitally but idk if it’s better to get a 64 or 256 gb one?

[tragedyposting]

I think every time a video game comes out they should sell just the character creation software and somewhere to save to model for a few bucks as a dress up game.

[thevalleyoftriumph]

i finally understand how thoze really dedicated toy collectorz feel <--- just spent a good hour trying to track down even a HINT of a stupid roblox figurine i want to get my handz on

[sebispline]

One thing I notice few people talking about in regards to "just" having more experienced employees directing AI: Where are those employees supposed to come from in the future?

If companies refuse to offer entry-level jobs and teach and provide experience to those new in the profession, there won't be experienced employees in the future.

I’m starting to sound like a nutcase at work because upper management keeps trying to implement AI programs and AI assistants and Chat GPT and my middle-of-the-road, don’t-infodump, don’t-engage response has been “I don’t like AI”, “I prefer to remain in control of my own tasks”, “I’d rather make my own mistakes”, and “I don’t trust any machine smarter than a toaster”

[cdrbsoftwares1]

How To Buy Better And Cheaper Software For Your Needs? Now, it is time to find out how they have priced the software, you can get software cheaper prices from the right stores but you need to make sure that you find out whether they are original or pirated software.

[funkle420]

I'm considering trying out that new animation software Moho, is it any good? if you've used it, what do you think about it?

[aidenwaites]

The biggest downside to Fadein is the fact that they don't have a current mobile app

[honestlywhythough]

They sure are trying! But I believe they do still sell perpetual licenses for a specific version of the program, so if any new features/versions come out you're out of luck

[winter-hoof]

I really do just feel like I'm losing my mind reading about an automatic litter box that if you don't keep its firmware up to date, it'll malfunction & kill your cat. Like what are we even doing

[fur-sure-suits]

Hi. I’m not dead lol

I’ve been trying to 3d model some armor for my hippogryph suit, but the modeling program I’m using (zbrush core mini) wants me to pay a fucking subscription fee to import the fursuits head base into the program so I can use it as a base. So I actually know the dimensions of what I’m fucking working on. Importing should be a basic fucking feature for ANY COMPUTER PROGRAM. And if you can’t tell, I hate subscription services. (I’m tempted to put services in quotes)

Also one of the locking magnets in my printers ams keeps coming loose. So I’m going to have to buy a new part. On a printer I’ve had for four days 🙃

So my creative process is kinda slow rn. Ugh

So I’m still around, I’m trying to work on projects in the studio, but keeping motivation is really hard with all these minor obstacles -__-

Honestly I have some animal minifigures/toys that I’ve been meaning to paint just for fun, so I might do that until that new part comes (and to take a break from printing

[phantomrose96]

If anyone wants to know why every tech company in the world right now is clamoring for AI like drowned rats scrabbling to board a ship, I decided to make a post to explain what's happening.

(Disclaimer to start: I'm a software engineer who's been employed full time since 2018. I am not a historian nor an overconfident Youtube essayist, so this post is my working knowledge of what I see around me and the logical bridges between pieces.)

Okay anyway. The explanation starts further back than what's going on now. I'm gonna start with the year 2000. The Dot Com Bubble just spectacularly burst. The model of "we get the users first, we learn how to profit off them later" went out in a no-money-having bang (remember this, it will be relevant later). A lot of money was lost. A lot of people ended up out of a job. A lot of startup companies went under. Investors left with a sour taste in their mouth and, in general, investment in the internet stayed pretty cooled for that decade. This was, in my opinion, very good for the internet as it was an era not suffocating under the grip of mega-corporation oligarchs and was, instead, filled with Club Penguin and I Can Haz Cheezburger websites.

Then around the 2010-2012 years, a few things happened. Interest rates got low, and then lower. Facebook got huge. The iPhone took off. And suddenly there was a huge new potential market of internet users and phone-havers, and the cheap money was available to start backing new tech startup companies trying to hop on this opportunity. Companies like Uber, Netflix, and Amazon either started in this time, or hit their ramp-up in these years by shifting focus to the internet and apps.

Now, every start-up tech company dreaming of being the next big thing has one thing in common: they need to start off by getting themselves massively in debt. Because before you can turn a profit you need to first spend money on employees and spend money on equipment and spend money on data centers and spend money on advertising and spend money on scale and and and

But also, everyone wants to be on the ship for The Next Big Thing that takes off to the moon.

So there is a mutual interest between new tech companies, and venture capitalists who are willing to invest $$$ into said new tech companies. Because if the venture capitalists can identify a prize pig and get in early, that money could come back to them 100-fold or 1,000-fold. In fact it hardly matters if they invest in 10 or 20 total bust projects along the way to find that unicorn.

But also, becoming profitable takes time. And that might mean being in debt for a long long time before that rocket ship takes off to make everyone onboard a gazzilionaire.

But luckily, for tech startup bros and venture capitalists, being in debt in the 2010's was cheap, and it only got cheaper between 2010 and 2020. If people could secure loans for ~3% or 4% annual interest, well then a $100,000 loan only really costs $3,000 of interest a year to keep afloat. And if inflation is higher than that or at least similar, you're still beating the system.

So from 2010 through early 2022, times were good for tech companies. Startups could take off with massive growth, showing massive potential for something, and venture capitalists would throw infinite money at them in the hopes of pegging just one winner who will take off. And supporting the struggling investments or the long-haulers remained pretty cheap to keep funding.

You hear constantly about "Such and such app has 10-bazillion users gained over the last 10 years and has never once been profitable", yet the thing keeps chugging along because the investors backing it aren't stressed about the immediate future, and are still banking on that "eventually" when it learns how to really monetize its users and turn that profit.

The pandemic in 2020 took a magnifying-glass-in-the-sun effect to this, as EVERYTHING was forcibly turned online which pumped a ton of money and workers into tech investment. Simultaneously, money got really REALLY cheap, bottoming out with historic lows for interest rates.

Then the tide changed with the massive inflation that struck late 2021. Because this all-gas no-brakes state of things was also contributing to off-the-rails inflation (along with your standard-fare greedflation and price gouging, given the extremely convenient excuses of pandemic hardships and supply chain issues). The federal reserve whipped out interest rate hikes to try to curb this huge inflation, which is like a fire extinguisher dousing and suffocating your really-cool, actively-on-fire party where everyone else is burning but you're in the pool. And then they did this more, and then more. And the financial climate followed suit. And suddenly money was not cheap anymore, and new loans became expensive, because loans that used to compound at 2% a year are now compounding at 7 or 8% which, in the language of compounding, is a HUGE difference. A $100,000 loan at a 2% interest rate, if not repaid a single cent in 10 years, accrues to $121,899. A $100,000 loan at an 8% interest rate, if not repaid a single cent in 10 years, more than doubles to $215,892.

Now it is scary and risky to throw money at "could eventually be profitable" tech companies. Now investors are watching companies burn through their current funding and, when the companies come back asking for more, investors are tightening their coin purses instead. The bill is coming due. The free money is drying up and companies are under compounding pressure to produce a profit for their waiting investors who are now done waiting.

You get enshittification. You get quality going down and price going up. You get "now that you're a captive audience here, we're forcing ads or we're forcing subscriptions on you." Don't get me wrong, the plan was ALWAYS to monetize the users. It's just that it's come earlier than expected, with way more feet-to-the-fire than these companies were expecting. ESPECIALLY with Wall Street as the other factor in funding (public) companies, where Wall Street exhibits roughly the same temperament as a baby screaming crying upset that it's soiled its own diaper (maybe that's too mean a comparison to babies), and now companies are being put through the wringer for anything LESS than infinite growth that Wall Street demands of them.

Internal to the tech industry, you get MASSIVE wide-spread layoffs. You get an industry that used to be easy to land multiple job offers shriveling up and leaving recent graduates in a desperately awful situation where no company is hiring and the market is flooded with laid-off workers trying to get back on their feet.

Because those coin-purse-clutching investors DO love virtue-signaling efforts from companies that say "See! We're not being frivolous with your money! We only spend on the essentials." And this is true even for MASSIVE, PROFITABLE companies, because those companies' value is based on the Rich Person Feeling Graph (their stock) rather than the literal profit money. A company making a genuine gazillion dollars a year still tears through layoffs and freezes hiring and removes the free batteries from the printer room (totally not speaking from experience, surely) because the investors LOVE when you cut costs and take away employee perks. The "beer on tap, ping pong table in the common area" era of tech is drying up. And we're still unionless.

Never mind that last part.

And then in early 2023, AI (more specifically, Chat-GPT which is OpenAI's Large Language Model creation) tears its way into the tech scene with a meteor's amount of momentum. Here's Microsoft's prize pig, which it invested heavily in and is galivanting around the pig-show with, to the desperate jealousy and rapture of every other tech company and investor wishing it had that pig. And for the first time since the interest rate hikes, investors have dollar signs in their eyes, both venture capital and Wall Street alike. They're willing to restart the hose of money (even with the new risk) because this feels big enough for them to take the risk.

Now all these companies, who were in varying stages of sweating as their bill came due, or wringing their hands as their stock prices tanked, see a single glorious gold-plated rocket up out of here, the likes of which haven't been seen since the free money days. It's their ticket to buy time, and buy investors, and say "see THIS is what will wring money forth, finally, we promise, just let us show you."

To be clear, AI is NOT profitable yet. It's a money-sink. Perhaps a money-black-hole. But everyone in the space is so wowed by it that there is a wide-spread and powerful conviction that it will become profitable and earn its keep. (Let's be real, half of that profit "potential" is the promise of automating away jobs of pesky employees who peskily cost money.) It's a tech-space industrial revolution that will automate away skilled jobs, and getting in on the ground floor is the absolute best thing you can do to get your pie slice's worth.

It's the thing that will win investors back. It's the thing that will get the investment money coming in again (or, get it second-hand if the company can be the PROVIDER of something needed for AI, which other companies with venture-back will pay handsomely for). It's the thing companies are terrified of missing out on, lest it leave them utterly irrelevant in a future where not having AI-integration is like not having a mobile phone app for your company or not having a website.

So I guess to reiterate on my earlier point:

Drowned rats. Swimming to the one ship in sight.

[mrnnki]

Vegas already come out with a new version and I miss when they had affordable tiers and would discount by like 60% for an upgrade. I'm not spending $150 on the next one, man. I don't have $150 to spend on that. That's 75% of what I spent to buy my current version

[moonlitrosecrafts]

well, shit

forgot that going out on my own, means i need to set up my own in person POS for pop up markets. not hard, i have experience doing so, i just get to pick my poison now. anyone reading have an opinion?