A lot of notes subscription pricing arguments rely on Goodnotes being one time payment or OneNote, Apple Notes, Google Keep being free. Goodnotes recently swit

A lot of notes subscription pricing arguments rely on Goodnotes being one time payment or OneNote, Apple Notes, Google Keep being free. Goodnotes recently switched to free to download and then upgrading with iAP. Before it was always paid upfront. Coincidentally, this free to iAP switch is also a necessary switch to eventually becoming SaaS. If Goodnotes switches to SaaS, sure smaller upstart apps will be there with buy once, but if they get big, they too will become subscriptions. Notability was one time payment just a couple months ago for its entire existence. OTOH, the other big free apps are run by the enormous monopolistic big brother tech companies. I’d prefer not supporting them and pointing to them doesn’t help because their reasoning for being free is to get people into their own varied walled gardens/ecosystems. A lot of innovations are unlikely to come from these companies apps. They are there to catch the widest net of [casual] users. It’s all business for them. All of this is like how South Park[0] parodied both Walmart/big box stores, and the consumers who enable this behavior and how it is a cycle that keeps going on. 0. https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Something_Wall-Mart_This_Way_Comes https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Something_Wall-Mart_This_W...