Adobe made Premiere entirely free on Android to compete with Canva — and it's a smart way to evade its hefty subscription fees
THE SO WHAT
Adobe is using a free Android Premiere as a funnel while paywalling generative AI via credits — the subscription is shifting from tool access to compute access. If you sell creative software, assume your real pricing power will sit in AI features and rendering, not in the base editor.
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