Instead of turning a blind eye on the [design] students' companies who will in the future pay by bringing the product/tool to their work environment or the 'dumbed' down Adobe products which may be good enough for family photos/videos, here's the proposal:
Now with the technology to enable real-time collaboration, let that be the premium service one pays for: real-time collaboration backend on the Adobe suites. (Easier said than to engineer real-time collaboration for vectors and direct pixels, but hey, this is a 5min idea. Microsoft OneNote began to do so on the client side and now on the web with the Office Web Apps...)
Real-time collaboration between adobe files are essential for the productivity of design teams. Right now design teams need to work around this by breaking up our books into tiny singular files so we can have different members of the team work on different pages of the same 'book'/'project' in InDesign.
Students who typically are working alone, learning to master the apps, don't require the real-time collaboration with other cohorts. Let the cost of the 'professional' design features in the Adobe suites be now part of a base affordable price (say~$50).
Medium/Large Businesses then are paying for the premium to support complex real-time collaboration service.
Freemium++
