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That leaves out a lot of the story. Those purchased packages often went out of date after a couple years, I remember being stuck on a different version of omnig
by jshen 3y ago
That leaves out a lot of the story. Those purchased packages often went out of date after a couple years, I remember being stuck on a different version of omnigraffle than other people I worked with because it was a pain to go through procurement to buy a new version. This was a giant headache.
There are also new truly useful features that people have come to expect that doesn’t work well with packaged software. Online collaboration, syncing across devices, etc.
- dehrmann 3y ago> There are also new truly useful features that people have come to expect that doesn’t work well with packaged software. Supports the latest iOS version...
- johnnyanmac 3y agofor mobile, sure. IOS and Android moved fast and odds are software you buy 5 years ago simply won't work if not maintained. Because that's a design choice of the mobile OS. Meanwhile, Windows and Linux focused a lot on backwards compatibility. Not perfect, but you can trust that 99% of software from Windows XP onward will work on Windows 11 with zero tweaking. Microsoft Word '00 and Adobe's CS1 suite (2003) were complete packages sold at a single cost and should still do their job in 2023. >There are also new truly useful features that people have come to expect that doesn’t work well with packaged software. Online collaboration, syncing across devices, etc. That is one fair point. Featues that require upkeep of a server make sense to monetize as a subscription.
- jshen 3y agoYeah, I wish the mobile OSes cared more about backwards compatibility