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What I hate about the rush to subscriptions is the addition of cloud elements where they are not needed. A great example of this is a little addition I've been
by __jal 7y ago
What I hate about the rush to subscriptions is the addition of cloud elements where they are not needed.
A great example of this is a little addition I've been using to Mail.app, called MailTags[1]. I've been using it for years, religiously upgrading as I go, because email is my primary communications mode and I had a great workflow built around it.
Now it has gone subscription and is storing metadata related to mail on Someone Else's Computer. That's a hard-no for me, and really too bad, but it did make me figure out that I can replicate the workflow I built around that with Mutt and a few shell scripts.
I don't know how common that is, but their attempt to extract regular revenue meant they lost revenue from me. I do sincerely hope it works out for them - I love indie devs! - but more and more, I find subscriptions lead me to substitute open source for whatever it is.
[1] https://smallcubed.com/scs/ https://smallcubed.com/scs/
- vbezhenar 7y agoI had similar problem with 1Password. They wanted to move their model to subscriptions, so I decided to take another look at password managers and migrated to KeePass which turned out to be even better alternative (requires some manual setup, but I don't mind).
- wyclif 7y agoI also used to use 1Password and migrated to KeePass. The problem is that password management isn't a good fit as a service with the subscription model. It's completely unsexy (nothing wrong with that) and therefore doesn't have the "can't do without this" emotional factor that connects people to, say, their phone data plan, their gym membership, or even their Netflix habit. Password management is something that you set up once and hopefully forget about completely.