That's moving the goalposts. "Paying for updates" is not the same as a subscription. A subscription is if I pay automatically, no matter what - and usually, I w

That's moving the goalposts. "Paying for updates" is not the same as a subscription. A subscription is if I pay automatically, no matter what - and usually, I will get some negative change to the status quo once I stop paying: I might lose access to the service immediately, I might be downgraded to a previous version, etc etc. > Considering people naturally want the latest and greatest They often don't. Especially with updates, those are often far more in the interests of the developers than of the users. That's why so much development effort has gone into auto-updating schemes. Remember how much effort Microsoft had to invest to get people off Windows XP. A large part of their userbase would have been perfectly fine with staying on XP for all eternity. It was Microsoft who wanted them to update to Vista, not the users.