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Re:AI is going to kill app subscriptions by neon_me on Sunday February 15, 2026 @11:14AM (#47024861)
Subscription is not about app ownership, but mostly running the infra. AI is going to make basically everything even more expensive and subscription based.

Your point is based on wrong assumptions.

Re:AI is going to kill app subscriptions by notahacker on Sunday February 15, 2026 @12:00PM (#47025269)
Yeah. There's a power law distribution in successful apps. The valuable ones wrap content, networks, products your enterprise is subscribed to, or at least rank ahead of similar themed games or an abundance of free with ads clones in an App Store as the "everybody uses this, it just works and you can share with them too" solution.

Sucks for the todo-list-for-x and pretty basic game app creators to have even more competition, but they weren't making bank from subscriptions anyway

Re:AI is going to kill app subscriptions by throwyawayyyy on Monday February 16, 2026 @02:18PM (#47039055)
That is an underappreciated point. Wrappers around LLMs are _many_ magnitudes more expensive to run than current SaaS apps.