I don’t mind paying rent for my stuff. What I do mind is paying a lot of rent for not a lot of stuff. When you have a $29 a year subscription for a one off use

I don’t mind paying rent for my stuff. What I do mind is paying a lot of rent for not a lot of stuff. When you have a $29 a year subscription for a one off use utility app they can fuck off. When you have a $29 a month subscription for storage, music, TV, fitness, games that spans 6 people I’m fine. What has changed is extortion for some products which have dubious or little value and really difficult to exit contracts. The last point is incidentally why I want apple to manage my in app purchases entirely, because you are not submitted to the cancellation will and drama of really horrible organisations with bad policies. Regarding free software I am probably mostly done with it now because I can’t even pay people to fix issues as a rule nor can I get people to accept fixes I’ve done for free. Usually met with silence on both. A point on the apple ecosystem is you can share purchases in your family. I paid £7 for a perpetual use of GoodNotes which is used by three people. That’s amazing value.