We’re seeing the same 'subscription fatigue' in the hardware space. I’m part of a team building Adola (https://adola.app), a smart ring for health tracking. We decided to go entirely subscription-free because the trend of paying $6/month just to see your own biometric data (Oura/Whoop) is starting to feel like a tax on health.

It’s refreshing to see more devs pivoting back to one-time purchases or hybrid models. Hardware is harder to do that with because of cloud/server costs for the data, but we’re betting that users prefer owning their device over renting their biometrics.