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1. Easier to manage updates. If you control the service you can ensure it's up to date. If everyone is using their own version you have to deal with bug reports
by that_guy_iain 4y ago
1. Easier to manage updates. If you control the service you can ensure it's up to date. If everyone is using their own version you have to deal with bug reports for bugs that have been fixed.
2. As many point out, subscriptions are best for a business because it's recurring revenue and you can grow. One off sales makes this harder.
3. The Jetbrains model is basically subscription model now. They only allowed you to have perpetual license because of backlash. However, I liked their approach of you can have a peretual license for the version that was available 12-months before your subscription ended. It's what I'm going to be using with my product with a slight modification.
4. As you point out, you're likely to forget about a subscription therefore the company makes money while basically providing nothing.
5. Overall, the problem is that everyone is accepting the current setup and paying for subscriptions instead of buying things so more companies are getting in on the gig.
- kevivni 4y agoOP here: Those are fair points. I get it from the business' perspective and also from a software developer's perspective. Its unfortunate that there is so little option for a consumer here when they are just wanting to just simplify their lives without sharing their personal data and/or subscribing to a service.
- whiplash451 4y agoTechnically speaking, you could totally imagine a SaaS software that does not require you sharing your data. These two things are fairly orthogonal.
- JohnFen 4y agoHow so? At the very least, you need to have some sort of payment method on file with the company.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoOnly for automatically recurring subscriptions. If subscribers are willing to to manually renew every pay period, the payment methods don't need to to stay on file (outside of the bare minimum required for tax purposes).
- emaginniss 4y agoYou claim that the consumer has it better with the desktop app, but you're ignoring the number of people who want quick access to their photos or finances from their mobile device, or from the computer at their friend's house when their computer dies. SaaS also implies universal access to a system.