It's not about the $129. It's about companies like Evernote and Reddit hooking users in by offering their services for free for years and then deciding at some

It's not about the $129. It's about companies like Evernote and Reddit hooking users in by offering their services for free for years and then deciding at some arbitrary point "hey, freeloader, time to pay up". This literally happened to me a few weeks ago. I purchased an app called Screens last year to remote into my machine at home from my iPad. It's worked great for years. One day, the app displays a pop-up notification on open recommending that I upgrade to Screens 5 (a free-to-download app) via the App Store, which I did. On trying to connect to my machine, I discover, surprise surprise, that the only reason for this app's existence is now locked behind a subscription. (I accidentally purchased the subscription and tried to get a refund immediately afterwards. apple denied the request three times, and the developer can't do anything. I could issue a charge-back, but Apple could counter that by terminating my account and denying the charge-back. Amazing.)