I feel similar. I know this is right, businesses ultimately pay for the support and need it and products go out of date for marketing and sales reasons and its

I feel similar. I know this is right, businesses ultimately pay for the support and need it and products go out of date for marketing and sales reasons and its easier and better for all involved to have a continuous rolling service. I still feel like the people at homes however don't really want this all the time. The games industry is definitely a mix of the two models but very often its priced up front and right now all the services come to an end regardless as customers leave for new games. The business focussed applications have gone this way and a got amount of the other home applications are free open source. So I agree its happened but I don't think the consumer gets the best deal out of this in a lot of cases because something they learnt to use and have an amount of content in ends up slowly moving out of date or costing a lot to keep due to the service costs. So because of this people have been pushed towards open source applications, which don't always survive but once at a certain size do so better than businesses on smaller numbers of customers. What bugs me is we have quite substantial amounts of performance available on the desktop and we don't utilise it because of the business model. Machines mostly just run web browsers and a lot of people have abandoned having a computer/laptop for a phone because there isn't much on the PC they care about especially with consoles being an easier route to gaming. Its a popular platform still, there are a lot of PCs and yet very few applications that really utilise the performance available and yet plenty of cloud services that do which they have to pay monthly for. There is a market not being catered to.