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Exactly this. More often than not with proprietary software, I'd rather spend £20 once and expect stability than pay £1.99/month and find that things are consta
by neilalexander 3y ago
Exactly this. More often than not with proprietary software, I'd rather spend £20 once and expect stability than pay £1.99/month and find that things are constantly changed/broken/"improved"/worsened for no reason.
I actually don't dislike the model that TablePlus etc use also, where my purchase grants me updates for a year. If I want more updates after that, I pay again. If not, I sit still on the version that I'm on forever more.
- happymellon 3y agoSimilar to Jetbrains. I do pay annually because there are real benefits with each release, but I'm not doing a subscription for your git client.
- Log_out_ 3y agoThe worst are subscriptions where you pay and a perfectly fine product gets worse over time.
- wongarsu 3y agoThis also properly aligns incentives. You continue to pay as long as updates provide value to you. As soon as updates provide no or negative value you can just cancel payments and stay on the version you like.
- danaris 3y ago...So long as whatever auto-update mechanism the software has can recognize where your paid support ends. I've had a problem in the past (I'm afraid I no longer recall what the software was offhand) where I paid for something with a model like you describe, but then after my support ended, the auto-updater updated me to a version that I hadn't paid for—and I was dumped back onto "free trial" mode. The auto-updater also needs to not notify me of updates that I can't get without paying. That's just spam at that point. Apart from that, I generally agree that that's a decent model to follow.
- Engineering-MD 3y agoAgenda app for iOS also uses this model.