" I am curious how many enterprising app developers would be interested in making and marketing "cloudless" apps that rely on up-front high prices for revenue,

" I am curious how many enterprising app developers would be interested in making and marketing "cloudless" apps that rely on up-front high prices for revenue, but neverending free updates (mostly bug fixes, I would hope). " One of the biggest reasons that subscriptions are proliferating is because it's really hard to make money with the old model. People don't want to pay large up front prices. "As far as I can tell, if you're not going to do subscription, there's no way to force users to pay to upgrade to a new version (new features) in the Apple App Store, not sure about Google Play." You can put a V2 in the store, and stop updating the V1. It's a terrible solution, but it's as good as it's gonna get.