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No. Just no. Charge a subscription if it's an ongoing service. If you're moving bits for me, running code on cloud for me on ongoing basis, charge me a subscrip
by arihant 9y ago
No. Just no. Charge a subscription if it's an ongoing service. If you're moving bits for me, running code on cloud for me on ongoing basis, charge me a subscription. If you gave me a binary to run, I pay you once. This is exactly why I shifted from Adobe to Affinity.
Comparing a pile of binary to Starbucks is less than stellar. Coffee is an ongoing service. You make coffee for me everyday, fresh. The cup does not last me years. There are a lot of things I pay for once in years, and it costs less than a fresh brew. A pen is a good example. A book is another. And frankly, a book is far more comparable to a copy of binary than Starbucks.
Unless the author buys a book and pays for it every month until he returns it, I won't take his word on selling binary. This advice will just lead to people reverse engineering your binaries and pirating it. Just ask Adobe.
- bitL 9y agoAdobe scored record profits as they switched to subscriptions so it might not be the best example. For businesses subscriptions are better; for individual users worse. Why not cover both bases instead of force one way or the other?
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- nhtoe78hnt 9y agoThat may be true, but it's difficult to separate that out from the other things that happened at the same time. They also started a cloud service for users and offered discounts on subscriptions. Who's to say that it wouldn't have worked out just as well if they made the cloud service and offered discounts on boxed copies of the software? Unfortunately, you can't do the experiment twice.
- bitL 9y agoI am still running on CS6 so for me personally CC doesn't work ;-) I was willing to buy CS7 but it never happened.
- laythea 9y agoAgreed. Any thing else is just greed.
- Walkman 9y agoWith your logic, you should pay for every new release. E.g. You bought the product at 1.0.5, you will pay for 1.0.6, 1.0.7, etc... IT IS am ongoing service. Development doesn't stop there. 1Password does this model; you have to pay for every major version of their product.