I want buy once, free minor bugfixes until the next major version comes out software.
For example, I liked windows 3.1, hated windows 95, liked windows 98, hated ME, liked 2000, and never liked another windows. Likewise, I liked early versions of Google maps, but they change the interface in small and large ways unpredictably. I could go on.
With the subscription model, you're stuck with every whim of the developers, stuck with horrible interface changes and you're constantly re-learning how to use the software to do the things you need to do with it. There's a tendency to make new features prominent, which comes at a cost to old (that is to say, core) features.
Auto-updates are a pox on usability. Stability in tools is severely underrated and destroyed by the subscription model.
I want buy once, free minor bugfixes until the next major version comes out software.
For example, I liked windows 3.1, hated windows 95, liked windows 98, hated ME, liked 2000, and never liked another windows. Likewise, I liked early versions of Google maps, but they change the interface in small and large ways unpredictably. I could go on.
With the subscription model, you're stuck with every whim of the developers, stuck with horrible interface changes and you're constantly re-learning how to use the software to do the things you need to do with it. There's a tendency to make new features prominent, which comes at a cost to old (that is to say, core) features.
Auto-updates are a pox on usability. Stability in tools is severely underrated and destroyed by the subscription model.