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0 pointsmoregrist21d ago0 comments

It’s not the $10/mo that bothers me. It’s the nature of essentially leasing the software.

Before it was a subscription, you bought a version and could use _that version_ in perpetuity, possibly with some number of well-defined upgrades.

If you didn’t want to upgrade, your software still worked. The value proposition of the software was clear.

Now I need to decide whether paying the subscription, possibly forever, is worth the value. This just feels bad.

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frollogaston20d ago

Doesn't seem any worse than deciding whether paying a huge sum upfront is worth the value in the long run. The old way wasn't like that though, it was 90% of users pirating Adobe.

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frollogaston20d ago

Doesn't seem any worse than deciding whether paying a huge sum upfront is worth the value in the long run. The old way wasn't like that though, it was 90% of users pirating Adobe.

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