I once bought a fantastic yoga app for 4.99$ from an independent developer, I used it every day for a month due to its simplicity and understandably. It has si

I once bought a fantastic yoga app for 4.99$ from an independent developer, I used it every day for a month due to its simplicity and understandably. It has since been bought by Gaiam, where it was switched to a >4.99$ per month subscription, while offering little to no additional features. Furthermore when contacting the company they had no way of honoring my original purchase, the response was basically "too bad for updating, and here's 10% off a yoga mat". I greatly fear the integrity of software ownership when it comes to apps. I love the model of paying a fixed price for a great software release that fulfills a need. I feel like there needs to be some way for the user to retain the state of an app or there's no longer the guarantee of keeping what you originally paid for. You're now at the whim of an vendor cutting features or putting them behind a paywall after the original sale.