I really liked the old way it used to work. You bought a license for software and got only bugfixes and security patches. Every second year there was a new version released with 50-75% upgrade price for current users.
I totally understand subscriptions for online services that run on provider servers/storage etc. (like Evernote) or content services where you get access to a vast database of always growing content, that you would never afford to buy at once. But stuff like Bear notes, Autodesk Fusion 360, etc. These I don’t understand. If you cannot justify a new version users want to pay for, then don’t make it. I think most users would gladly pay for new features and improvements. Just don’t make them cash cows driving your business model on fear of loss.
They shoehorn their cloud service and certain operations are done on their servers, which are awfully slow. It seems like they added this to justify a subscription and not to give any benefit to the user.
Yeah, and these services (namely renders of the designs) are still paid outside of main subscription fee. What’s worst is that these cloud services make the app worse. I want to work on a file I have on my computer, not upload it to cloud first so it works slower.
I totally understand subscriptions for online services that run on provider servers/storage etc. (like Evernote) or content services where you get access to a vast database of always growing content, that you would never afford to buy at once. But stuff like Bear notes, Autodesk Fusion 360, etc. These I don’t understand. If you cannot justify a new version users want to pay for, then don’t make it. I think most users would gladly pay for new features and improvements. Just don’t make them cash cows driving your business model on fear of loss.