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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by techdragon on Sunday December 18, 2022 @10:22PM (#34048007)
IntelliJ has arguably one of the best subscription models for tools. It works offline and they have fallback licenses so if they doubled the price and I cancel I’m still legally entitled to a recent version that I’ll probably be happy enough with until I find the motivation to replace it with something else.

If Adobe worked like that I’d be like 75% pissed off at their products and pricing.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by janlaureys on Monday December 19, 2022 @03:25AM (#34049774)
Sketch also used this model for a long time. You pay for a year of updates, and you can keep the last version you got forever.

Recently they started to add more cloud/collaboration services/a web app and switched to a regular old subscription model, but you can bet your ass i'm staying on the legacy model for as long as I can.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by cy_hauser on Monday December 19, 2022 @11:00AM (#34053573)
arguably... then I'll argue the opposite (even as a subscriber). Jetbrains rolls your subscription back to the version on the day you purchased, not the last version in your subscription. If you purchase and immediately find a bug, you know you're rolling back to that bug unless you pay a renewal next year. Same goes for any fixes you got during that entire year. Poof, gone.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by knighthack on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:24PM (#34060764)
I've been subscribed to IntelliJ close to 8 years now.

The one reason why I tolerate IntelliJ's subscription/pricing model is that unlike Adobe, they actually do deliver constant and worthwhile updates. Their software also rarely crashes, and their universal workflow (across different languages, themes, key bindings, plugins) also works as promised.

If not for the above the subscription would be a very hard sell for me.

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