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Good software that you use every day isn’t worth less than a cup of coffee for you? That’s fine, don’t buy it. Good UIs take time and skill to build. Should thi
by foooorsyth 2y ago
Good software that you use every day isn’t worth less than a cup of coffee for you? That’s fine, don’t buy it. Good UIs take time and skill to build. Should this student just do this for free? iOS users have money for software they use — $2/mo is perfectly reasonable.
- forger09 2y ago[dead]
- Dalewyn 2y ago[flagged]
- whtsthmttrmn 2y ago[flagged]
- dmonitor 2y agoI'm not against software subscriptions, but $2/mo is pretty expensive for an alternative to an app that already comes on your phone.
- ndriscoll 2y agoA $2/mo subscription is extremely expensive for something that you're going to keep using; the present value is somewhere in the $500-800 range. That's over 20x more expensive than the $25 lifetime purchase, and 3-5x the cost of a lifetime purchase of Microsoft Office Home. You would basically pay for the lifetime license after 1 year. $25 for lifetime is maybe a little expensive for what it is, but whatever. But it seems to me that people have a similar if not worse blind spot with subscriptions as they do with credit card debt. The pricing for subscriptions is always off the charts when you compare present value to the cost of a one-time purchase.
- scarfaceneo 2y agoMost devs nowadays don’t even offer you that option, so kudos for that alone