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From the 2000s onwards (given my age) I remember permanent licenced software being very expensive and out of reach: Photoshop, Visual Studio, Macromedia Flash,

From the 2000s onwards (given my age) I remember permanent licenced software being very expensive and out of reach: Photoshop, Visual Studio, Macromedia Flash, Visual Basic. > ``You're going to see an economic model where software companies become giant incubators for good ideas,'' he says, likening it to the record business, which takes the creative product of an artist and markets it. I feel the big tech companies should be expanding into many markets by their sheer programming prowess and complexity budgets/capacity. They should try run the cost of complexity to zero and make complexity a commodity. Maybe I'm in a bubble but I don't see much new desktop software. I feel it is difficult to get people in the world to pay for digital things. £10 for an iOS APP??? What software am I actually willing to pay for? Probably software that earns me something. I bought Sublime Text a long time ago but nowadays I just use notepad++ or IntelliJ or VS Code rarely. I bought Typora, a markdown editor because I write a lot of markdown. The same problem also applies to the web. What websites would you pay for? Would you pay $3 for a HN subscription? What about digital magazines? Are there any newspapers that are actually worth it, that enhance your life? EDIT: it just occurred to me that the web IS a digital magazine. But I meant publications. I feel if you want something to stay around then the market has to support its costs at a bare minimum. If you only charge lifetime licences/permanent licences traditional software then the software has a lifespan because the company can only support it while their costs are covered. SaaS is the outcome of web technology, browser technology and business needs. I just don't like the duplication of effort, every SaaS has to implement authorisation and authentication, backup, security measures, billing, subscriptions, user management, account management, an Android app, an iOS app, dashboards and maybe a desktop client. It's such a waste of effort. What about a SaaS dashboard SaaS, where all your SaaS are mangaed from one place? Edit: Saas As Code?

mrweasel 3y ago
> I feel it is difficult to get people in the world to pay for digital things. £10 for an iOS APP??? It very much seems like developers have stopped trying. The app store for the iPhone/iPad is broken and I blame in-app purchases and subscriptions. I feel that Apple should be VERY restrictive about what is allowed to be an in-app purchase or subscription. Try browsing the apps available, especially for children, it's all free, with in app purchases or in-app subscriptions. I was trying to find a coloring app on the iPad, there's like one that's reasonably priced. It's free for 5 - 10 coloring pages then you pay $5 - $6 to unlock everything. Completely reasonable in my mind. The rest: $30 per year as a subscription... well, now I'm not buying anything, that's not something that should be a subscription. I really want the app stores to start very clearly advertising that the in-app purchase is an unreasonably priced subscription and preferably require that the price to unlock an every feature. Most of all I want in-app purchase and subscriptions to go away. My life already have plenty of subscriptions, I refuse to sign up for more. I have four streaming subscriptions, two news sites, online storage, password managers, internet, phones, service contracts for my car... Just F-ing stop and let me pay up front for things that REALLY doesn't need to be subscriptions because I can't deal with anymore.
- lotsofpulp 3y ago
  I have not searched for a single app outside of Apple Arcade in many years.
- Kye 3y ago
  Procreate (one time purchase) + pictures of real coloring books might work. You can also get PDF coloring books and load them as layers. As far as I know Procreate has nothing in it that should cause problems. It can access the file browser, but that might be controllable in parental control settings.
mch82 3y ago
Core services like identity, subscription management, payment, and backup seem to be emerging as the role of the operating system on modern devices.
2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago
> £10 for an iOS APP??? £10 is outrageous when AAA video games start at $70. > Are there any newspapers that are actually worth it, that enhance your life? New Yorker, Economist, The Atlantic, NYT are all fantastic- I order print editions and don't install their apps on my phone.

mrweasel 3y ago

> I feel it is difficult to get people in the world to pay for digital things. £10 for an iOS APP??? It very much seems like developers have stopped trying. The app store for the iPhone/iPad is broken and I blame in-app purchases and subscriptions. I feel that Apple should be VERY restrictive about what is allowed to be an in-app purchase or subscription. Try browsing the apps available, especially for children, it's all free, with in app purchases or in-app subscriptions. I was trying to find a coloring app on the iPad, there's like one that's reasonably priced. It's free for 5 - 10 coloring pages then you pay $5 - $6 to unlock everything. Completely reasonable in my mind. The rest: $30 per year as a subscription... well, now I'm not buying anything, that's not something that should be a subscription. I really want the app stores to start very clearly advertising that the in-app purchase is an unreasonably priced subscription and preferably require that the price to unlock an every feature. Most of all I want in-app purchase and subscriptions to go away. My life already have plenty of subscriptions, I refuse to sign up for more. I have four streaming subscriptions, two news sites, online storage, password managers, internet, phones, service contracts for my car... Just F-ing stop and let me pay up front for things that REALLY doesn't need to be subscriptions because I can't deal with anymore.

lotsofpulp 3y ago
I have not searched for a single app outside of Apple Arcade in many years.
Kye 3y ago
Procreate (one time purchase) + pictures of real coloring books might work. You can also get PDF coloring books and load them as layers. As far as I know Procreate has nothing in it that should cause problems. It can access the file browser, but that might be controllable in parental control settings.

mch82 3y ago

Core services like identity, subscription management, payment, and backup seem to be emerging as the role of the operating system on modern devices.

2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago

> £10 for an iOS APP??? £10 is outrageous when AAA video games start at $70. > Are there any newspapers that are actually worth it, that enhance your life? New Yorker, Economist, The Atlantic, NYT are all fantastic- I order print editions and don't install their apps on my phone.