I am a long time Mac user and I don't use any software that requires a subscription. I do buy licenses for a few pieces of software but the way it works if you

I am a long time Mac user and I don't use any software that requires a subscription. I do buy licenses for a few pieces of software but the way it works if you get to keep the version you bought forever and up to a year of updates. To me that is a reasonable version of recurring revenue. The numbers on buying software once and then getting updates forever just don't work economically. So I don't blame companies for shifting to a different model as long as it isn't abusive (the worst version of this is Adobe Creative Cloud) >And am I being selfish for wishing these high-quality apps were free? I mean, yeah? Firstly, I had to look up several of the things you mentioned. I almost wonder if you googled "cool mac apps" or something. You listed a note taking app, a calendar app. There are oodles and oodles of really good options for all of those, both open source or free tier'd. I highly recommend Dynalist for notes, it changed my life. >If you spend a lot of time and effort on that You're pretty much never going to get super polished, amazing UI consumer facing open source software. That's just not the space that open source fills.