Professionally, I use Linux, MacOS, Windows, Emacs, programming languages, and TeX a great deal and they are all extremely powerful and end up being either free or just part of the expense of having a computer. Furthermore, some subscriptions seem to be intentionally hard to turn off (WSJ news and Adobe products). I would much rather purchase a program outright. What bothers me about subscription pricing is how expensive it invariably turns out to be considering the amount of use I get out of a program.
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Thirty years ago, I had a $20/mo land line, and a TV antenna, and that was it! Think about that! I'm not at all clear that my quality of life is $500/mo better than it was back then. If your model requires a monthly payment for something, it must literally change my life, at this point. This is why people are saying they only pay for a subscription if it REALLY matters to them. I just can't keep paying for all these things, even when they're only a "few" dollars, every month. I understand everyone wants a subscriber, not a customer, but my budget is dying a death from a thousand cuts here. and I'm probably forgetting several others. Then you have Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Sam's Club (Premium!), Google Play, some stupid app my daughter needs for $8/mo, Wolfram Alpha to help her with homework, LastPass, Apple iCloud storage, SpiderOak backup, Google apps for business.
Cell service and cable TV & internet are already $350/mo for me. What non-life-critical apps or services am I paying for every month? Quite a lot already. It's a function of the straw that broke the camel's back.
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