All of your complaints about how hard it is to make it as a developer are probably legitimate, but understand that there are 2 sides to every market. It's high

All of your complaints about how hard it is to make it as a developer are probably legitimate, but understand that there are 2 sides to every market. It's highly unlikely your app provides enough value to be worth paying for every single month for most people. Be honest, you've seen that the best way to monetize someone is to get them to pay you every month without thinking about it. This is we're bombarded with "first month's free, write to us via registered mail to cancel or you'll automatically be paying $100/month" offers. A subscription model is equivalent to a "I know a good number of people don't read their credit card statement every month and will forget to cancel" model. And that's fine. Attempting to get more money from people who are rich enough to not need to read their credit card statement is probably a more honest way to live than monetizing customers via ads or in app purchases like the rest of the "unicorns". [edit] I would like to tone down one sentence. When I say "your" I'm actually not referring to the author of this article, instead I'm referring to "A developer who currently sells his/her app for a one time fee of 0.99-3.99".