Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?

Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by xg15 on Monday December 19, 2022 @06:38AM (#34050980)

> This point is at the center of the move to subscriptions, and I think we should be more explicit that we want companies to eventually _not_ significantly upgrade products and keep them alive with minimal changes for a long time, while we're still paying for subscriptions.

How is that different from rent-seeking?

> The roadblock is of course customers wondering why they're still paying every month for a product that sees little change, and I don't have an answer to that, except the alternative had other issues as well.

That question is not that dumb. If you don't want any meaningful change to your software, why do you care that the company still exists? You might just as well have an old version that still works, whether or not the company is still maintaining it.

So yeah, in that situation, apart from the occasional security fix, I really wouldn't know what I'm paying for.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by makeitdouble on Monday December 19, 2022 @07:14AM (#34051191)

Yes, the question of paying upfront or sustaining a subscription isn’t simple.

I refuse to pay for Adobe CS and keep an old Lightroom license around when needed, but pay for Bitwarden just to keep them around for security updates and new OS support, and absolutely don’t want them to add new flashy features every month. There’s no one size fits all I think.

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