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IMHO it feels like the subscription model in many cases (not all of them) protects a developer from having to innovate and deliver other products. In the real w
by trinsic2 4y ago
IMHO it feels like the subscription model in many cases (not all of them) protects a developer from having to innovate and deliver other products. In the real world you shouldn't expect to get unlimited income from one type of product regardless of Whether or not you are maintaining it. There is a saturation point.
- Rastonbury 4y agoThat's not true at all, for most modern software with newer products, competition on product and winning competitors customers using X new features is ruthless. Messing up your product or falling behind will send your company to the grave, unless you are Adobe.
- sebazzz 4y agoAgreed - every time a license or a prepretual subscription (like JetBrains) needs to be repurchased is a natural moment to evaluate the usage and state of the software in question: Do we still like it, do we still use it as much, do new versions offer enough improvement to upgrade. If not, we don’t renew. With subscription based software there is no set moment to do that, so there are naturally a lot of sleeping subscriptions and otherwise subscriptions which are rarely re-evaluated on its value. In my opinion this makes the vendor lazy.