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It seems like the pricing announcement of any major product these days is accompanied by obligatory outrage over geographical price differences. These are not isolated incidents and they underscore a more fundamental problem as traditional business models are incorrectly applied to a new market of web-savvy international consumers.

The latest example of a backlash on geographical pricing inequalities is the one over Adobe's prices for its CS3 products in the UK and Europe. But why are people complaining? What exactly is the difference between adobe.com and adobe.co.uk? Three characters, it would seem, and approximately $1,527 less in your pocket if you're buying Creative Suite 3 Design Premium.

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Adobe is now shipping Creative Suite 3 Design Premium and Web Premium bundles, although the store still says "preorder".

And, if you buy your copy through the link above, you'll end up supporting me, SWX and OSFlash! :)

I'm honored to be part of the line-up at the upcoming serestandar.es conference in Sevilla, Spain from the 27th to the 29th of June, 2007.

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I installed the latest version of Flex Builder 2.0.1 today and it completely messed up the Flash Player on my mac. I mean, no amount of uninstalling it or reinstalling the Flash Player would get it to work in any of my browsers.

So, faced with the choice of either porting everything to Silverlight or finding a solution, I decided on the latter.

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