Re:Subscription Hell
by zerowellies on Sunday May 06, 2018 @07:07PM
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The model works for you - great. There are users who don't care for constant feature updates and rather own a product than perpetually rent it.
I do understand that. I'm not saying there's one size fits all. I just don't agree that subscribtions are inherently bad.
But - if those preferring a perpetual license were to be a strong minority, there would be no business incentive to make products in such a way.
> 3. Password Manager
This one is a total non-starter for subscription pricing. I'm not willing to use software that will potentially cut access to all my accounts if I stop paying them monthly.
Check out 1password. Read access is retained, and you still have everything stored offline.
1. Operating system 2. Programming IDE 3. Password Manager 4. Well I pay subscription for Netflix and Spotify but that's not really for the updates. Partly for new content, partly operating costs. 5. Facebook (I'd prefer to cover the operating costs by subscription, I really dislike ads) 6. Email - same as above
Also, actually I'd like all the services I use to provide feature updates now and then and continue trying to innovate.
Edit: also, if you do feature updates every now and then. Like it was with Windows or Photoshop. Then you end up having to support a lot of parallel versions with security and bug fixes which is wasted work really.