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The only thing that makes this different is you’re uploading to cricuts servers which do processing so I can see why they’d want recurring revenue for that. But
by dawnerd 6y ago
The only thing that makes this different is you’re uploading to cricuts servers which do processing so I can see why they’d want recurring revenue for that. But it shouldn’t be forced on customers that have already purchased before the plans were introduced. That’s just scummy.
- ddingus 6y agoThe servers doing processing are completely unnecessary. There isn't anything happening on those little machine that requires it be done that way. Just a little food for thought: Say their servers did a lot of processing to ensure that your designs were cut optimally or were successful along with the time or some other criteria. That's an actual real value-add, and people may be willing to pay for it. How do we know whether it's a value-add or not? Open data is how we know. Free tools and do those job perfectly well. We've got a ton of them. None of this is new.
- Isthatablackgsd 6y agoA few apps have done this and they only did it to take a full advantage of the pandemic. Two of my daily driver apps went this route during the pandemic (that is more fuckup when you think about it) and I uninstalled it immediately. One app took really cool features and completely nerfed/degraded it and hide it behind the subscription. Seriously, they put the crippled feature behind a subscription, wat the...