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In my view this company took what used to be a perfectly capable, useful, and reasonably priced (well kind of high priced) app, and abused the idea of subscript
by natch 7y ago
In my view this company took what used to be a perfectly capable, useful, and reasonably priced (well kind of high priced) app, and abused the idea of subscriptions to parlay it into a way to pay for their swimming pools and SUVs for life. People deserve to get paid, sure, but we are talking about a small utility app here. They knew they had gotten some lockin and they played it to the hilt, to the detriment of users. All the complexity they have added is optional and arguably worse. The sense of entitlement is breathtaking.
- yladiz 7y agoI downvoted you because it is significantly more complicated than that. It could be that the model that they were using was not sustainable (pay once per major version) and needed (or strongly wanted) more stable revenue. I agree that they push subscriptions hard and, as a user of the iCloud vault, it’s pretty frustrating to have to jump through hoops to get it to function on the current version as it did on the previous version. I also eventually bought a subscription because it was pretty complex to get the standalone app and you could not get it via Mac App Store. I have my grievances with the changes during the past two years with 1Password and Agilebits. However, I don’t believe they are doing it to “pay for their swimming pools and SUVs” but rather keep their business alive and to, yes, pay their employees.