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I’m not the people you are responding to, but I’ll share my take as a dev who buys some tools and turns my nose at the others. The difference is - whether it’s
by VincentEvans 3y ago
I’m not the people you are responding to, but I’ll share my take as a dev who buys some tools and turns my nose at the others.
The difference is - whether it’s a purchase or a subscription.
I’ll happily buy a tool, and happily will buy upgrades every so often.
I will absolutely resist paying for subscriptions unless you are delivering some sort of continuous service and I won’t be fooled by gimmicky cloud integrations just to make that claim.
- thiht 3y agoSame for me, I avoid subscriptions as much as possible. I’m ok with the model of TablePlus however: pay for a license, it’s valid for a year, and at the end of the year you keep the current version available forever but no more updates. And you get a discount if you decide to renew your license
- VincentEvans 3y agoAgreed, a subscription model where you end up “owning” a particular version after reaching some milestone is ok with me. Sort of like a payment plan. I’ve been a happy subscriber to Jetbrains Toolbox that has a similar model for many years now, and have interrupted and later resumed my subscription while being able to use the software in between. 100% against a subscription where you no longer able to use the software the moment you cancel your subscription after paying for years. Looking at you Adobe.