AA3 Pricing outside USA

And that may well be significant in the worldwide pricing decisions...

Probably not.  Adobe were already notorious for this type of pricing before they bought CoolEdit off Syntrillium.

Paul

Who says they are making a profit ??

If you were sitting on this side of the pond, then you might be a little more understanding towards the feelings of non-USA supporters of this product.  Actually, I suspect there are a lot more of those than one might think.  If they all refused to pay the inflated price over here, then you might end up paying twice as much as now, in order to maintain Adobe's profit margin.

Well here at my side of the pond, in order to have a computer that is compatible with AA3, I had to shell out about $7-800 plus a lot of time doing homework and putting it all together..... the $99 Adobe fee was hardly anything compared to that. But it was an extra expense I had to pay out to get up and running with AA3. My alternative was to get up and running with M-Powered ProTools for the midi. I already have Sonar, but wanted something different. Next week I have to get another Vista compatible midi interface of some sort to get completely up and running, so there's another expense.
 
I have no clue on why Adobe charges different rates.

Well here at my side of the pond, in order to have a computer that is compatible with AA3, I had to shell out about $7-800 plus a lot of time doing homework and putting it all together.....

That's a specious argument and has no bearing on the subject.  The same is true for all users, no matter where they are located.  It's also true of lots of other software - if you want the latest versions, then you'll likely have upgrade the hardware to cope.

 

I have no clue on why Adobe charges different rates.

Neither have I - but I'd love to know the rationale behind their thinking.

they won't release bugfixes - they save them all up for a new version, and then sell them to you with a few new features to 'justify' it. And even that wouldn't be so bad if they'd actually fixed a few of them...

That varies with product - Photoshop and Acrobat have both regularly got updates between releases (and Acrobat, being their flagship commercial package, continues to get updates for the previous release or two as well - Acrobat 6 got it's sixth update around the time Acrobat 8 was released).

So, is it to do with numbers and volume of sales?  Photoshop and Acrobat are huge softwares, but Audition's small fish by comparison.  Is it that they do the bugfixes with the programs that most influence public opinion?

So, is it to do with numbers and volume of sales?  Photoshop and Acrobat are huge softwares, but Audition's small fish by comparison.  Is it that they do the bugfixes with the programs that most influence public opinion?

Could be - who knows? We've never had a satisfactory explanation of Adobe corporate policy from that POV.