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Re:Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad by jkmcf on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:55PM (#24298556)
TBF, they've priced it at $70/year due to Apple's "tax", and Netflix has economies of scale Muse can only dream of.

If you find value in their product, and use it frequently, is $100/yr that much? I haven't tried it yet, but superficially it seems much less trivial than Fantastical, which is a great product, but not worth $40/year.

I personally hate subscriptions as currently implemented. I'd like to see pricing amortized over two years, and after that a reduced subscription price since you are primarily funding maintenance in many cases.

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Re:Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad by jmnicolas on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:21PM (#24306734)
> is $100/yr that much

Not everybody has Silicon Valley or even US salaries (I sure don't) and subscriptions quickly add up and become non trivial.

At work we still have Office 2010 on most our workstations. Imagine how much we would have paid if we had an Office 365 subscription all those years (I'm not sure 365 even existed at the time of 2010 release but bear with me for the example).

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Re:Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad by ianai on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:24PM (#24299375)
Yes 100/yr is absolutely too much.
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