This is exactly right -- Adobe wanted people to pirate Photoshop at home because they knew it wasn't realistic for a lot of home users to pay for an entire Photoshop license upfront. Back in 2010, that was a whopping $700 [1].
SaaS changed that -- you can now get Photoshop for a month (no annual contract) for $10 [2, 3].
Which is truly just an amazing deal -- that $700 in 2010 would be $1015 today, so the subscription will be cheaper until you use it for eight and a half years, plus you get upgrades. It's a lot fairer for everyone. Except when Adobe pulls sh*t like the FTC is suing them over.
But yes -- SaaS absolutely ended the idea of companies wanting home users to pirate their stuff so companies would buy it.
SaaS changed that -- you can now get Photoshop for a month (no annual contract) for $10 [2, 3].
Which is truly just an amazing deal -- that $700 in 2010 would be $1015 today, so the subscription will be cheaper until you use it for eight and a half years, plus you get upgrades. It's a lot fairer for everyone. Except when Adobe pulls sh*t like the FTC is suing them over.
But yes -- SaaS absolutely ended the idea of companies wanting home users to pirate their stuff so companies would buy it.
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/12/photoshop.first.look.wir...
[2] https://petapixel.com/how-much-is-photoshop/
[3] https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography.html