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Great point, though, how many programs truly own a niche. Still, as a personal preference, I feel like subscriptions are less preferable. I want to buy someth
by kobayashi 11y ago
Great point, though, how many programs truly own a niche.
Still, as a personal preference, I feel like subscriptions are less preferable. I want to buy something and own it, and the continued costs of subscriptions feels like a money suck. Beyond that, it seems to me that subscription costs almost always end up costing me, the end-user, more money.
Edit: thinking a bit more about it, I do suppose that I'm okay with paying for some subscriptions (e.g. VPN provider, Netflix, etc.) but it's the software program subscription model which I find most irksome.
- radley 11y agoAdobe's Creative Cloud
- Hoasi 11y agoIt certainly looks to be working for Adobe: http://venturebeat.com/2016/03/17/adobe-sees-record-1-38b-revenue-in-q1-adds-798k-paying-creative-cloud-subscribers/ http://venturebeat.com/2016/03/17/adobe-sees-record-1-38b-re...
- Retric 11y agoMicrosoft Office + a few more, Adobe Creative, Salesforce Plus several that are fairly stagnate markets like Symantec, Intuit, etc. Granted, if they do nothing people go away eventually. But, subscription means being a slow adopter is enough you don't need to innovate.