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Subscriptions are almost definitely more profitable. E.g. Photoshop is now $240/year. The last price I could find for a version you could actually buy was $50
by everforward 4y ago
Subscriptions are almost definitely more profitable.
E.g. Photoshop is now $240/year. The last price I could find for a version you could actually buy was $500. Assuming someone uses it for 4 years (which might be short, the few people I know who use PS latch onto a version for forever), it would be ~$1,000 for a license.
A lot of stuff would be fine for about a decade. That would be ~$2,500 for comparable income.
Subscriptions tend to be dramatically more expensive than buying software was. $5/month over a decade is $600. A lot of stuff wants to charge $5/month for something I wouldn't pay $600 to own for a decade.