I disagree with the sentiment in the original post, at least for the generalization given, and with the justification of the cloud sync as an ongoing service ju

I disagree with the sentiment in the original post, at least for the generalization given, and with the justification of the cloud sync as an ongoing service justifying the cost. The justification of the cost is the value that the app is bringing to me (or my business). If I had some kind of lead gen software that brought me an additional N leads per month I'd loooove to pay N(.05)(margin_on_closed_deal) or something like that -- and having used similar justifications to potential customers I know that many businesspeople agree.