Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
by mns on Monday December 19, 2022 @07:42AM
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I think IntelliJ is getting worse, but at least you have a perpetual fallback license, which I might use at one point, as they are augmenting my code so much with everything, that if I open some source files in a plain text editor, they look completely different. I find this extremely annoying, because I don't want the IDE to change my view of the code so much that it starts interfering with it.
Spotify is more of a content provider, but even there, a few year ago I found it to be one of the best software out there and their Spotify connect was just magic. Not hey seem to be everywhere: soundbars, watches, the apps are a bloated mess that I need to restart Spotify desktop in order to update the like of a song that I liked on my phone. But this is the natural lifecycle of software products, something starts off as a great product coming to replace some sort of legacy monster, only to end up becoming the monster that they replaced.
Spotify is more of a content provider, but even there, a few year ago I found it to be one of the best software out there and their Spotify connect was just magic. Not hey seem to be everywhere: soundbars, watches, the apps are a bloated mess that I need to restart Spotify desktop in order to update the like of a song that I liked on my phone. But this is the natural lifecycle of software products, something starts off as a great product coming to replace some sort of legacy monster, only to end up becoming the monster that they replaced.