Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
by solardev on Sunday December 18, 2022 @04:22PM
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I've never really seen a subscription program stagnate in practice. In fact I find that subscriptions allow companies to detach revenue from feature planning and deliver useful features rather than shiny new UIs.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
by phrom on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:41PM
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If revenue is not attached to feature planning, how are users going to influence what features get developed?
Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
by chillfox on Monday December 19, 2022 @12:16AM
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Evernote, all they did for several years was scrambling the UI.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
by TeMPOraL on Monday December 19, 2022 @05:07AM
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You and I must be using completely disjoint set of subscription software, because I can't think of any that ended up delivering useful features and improvements, instead of cutting out and dumbing down the functionality, while endlessly messing with the UI.
That's a big reason people want sta ility of "buy once": to protect the tool they use now from becoming worse over time.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
by gernb on Monday December 19, 2022 @06:12PM
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Of course it's subjective but my feeling is Photoshop hasn't added anything of significance since they went subscription. The majority of new features have been cloud intergration (something not even many of Adobe's employees want) and UI tweaks
They're even removing features
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/3d-faq.html#discontinue...