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Usd 10/year is entirely reasonable. But I fear an higher fee.
by alanfranz 3y ago
Usd 10/year is entirely reasonable. But I fear an higher fee.
- fluoridation 3y agoIf your average user buys a new version every 5 years and the Pro version costs $250, they could charge $50/yr. $10/yr would be quite generous, unless they think they can get lots of people to stop pirating the OS. $10/month seems like an unlikely price point.
- kyriakos 3y agoI honestly don't understand why anyone would pirate windows. Its full featured if you don't activate apart from a watermark. If you choose to activate you can get an oem key for like 10 usd.
- seanw444 3y ago$1/year is entirely unreasonable. They build a product, they sell it to you, transaction ends there. They should sell you a product that works. Bug fixes are part of making the thing you bought closer to what was advertised, so it's part of the initial purchase. An OS is not a SaaS, and nobody considered doing it until it became popular, because it's a fad.
- alanfranz 3y agoOf course a subscription would imply no upfront fee.
- intvocoder 3y agoThey're (presumably) double-dipping, the PC OEMs are already paying for the license.
- alanfranz 3y agoIn that case even $1/year would be unreasonable.
- warrenm 3y ago>Bug fixes are part of making the thing you bought closer to what was advertised, so it's part of the initial purchase Says who, exactly? Why should bug fixes be included? If they should, for how long should they?