![]() ![]() It must be paid on the first day of the month or a fixed day. Companies are just lazy about subscription scheduling. I have a lot more outgoing cash and living closer to the paycheck since others need the savings. Its been a royal pain in the butt to have a bunch of subscriptions during this time. getting locked into a piece of software that holds my data hostage), but I got a few others. I hate subscriptions, for a lot of the reason others have said (ex. Maybe that's ok with them and they have some internal calculation that those people cost them more than they are worth. I guess for businesses the whole annual pricing is fine, if not preferred, but I wonder how many of these companies are killing any possibility of non-businesses buying their software. Hmm wait until I clean the coffee off the front my t-shirt. I suspect the devs who know how to do matrix multiplication have long left after google dumped the product, and they are now left with a handful of webheads. In the case of sketchup, whatever the marketing blurbs have spattered about, NOTHING IS NEW for like 10 years, I mean, they try to add 'hooks' here and there, but the main program is exactly the same, same bugs for that long. Well guess what, perhaps some people will, but no NEW people will. I'm sad to say Sketchup is doing this, if they had a $100 upgrade price every year or so, I'd pay happily - however here's lies the other main problem: these companies don't WANT to invest in R&D enough to have a 'valid' reason to have a new major version every 12-18 months, they actually think people will just keep paying. I don't use it that much to want that, and next time I want to use it, it actually might be incompatible with /whatever is in my chain of hardware/ anyway. I bought all updates until LR6, but now I know it's a lot cheaper to archive my machine with LR6 in a corner and use it for my photo edit than switching to the 'super value online thingy' for $$$/year. Super product, but updates started to slow down and slow down and WOW now look it's all ONLINE baby for a price. It's happening with Adobe Photoshop and stuff, where they've been skinning their customer base for years, but quite frankly who would now as a new potiential customer decide to shackle themselves to that? I know quite a few people who will use inferior tools JUST so they don't have to hook up to Adobe blood-suck. However, any 'new' customer will not let themselves be trapped. ie people who have invested in their product already, and they can somehow "up sell" them the subscribtion for a while and it sounds like a GREAT plan. I think all these companies rely on /captive audiences/. Yearly realases are bad btw and nobody likes them. The presumption from above is, that you won't renew you subscription when you don't like the new yearly version – but then you can no longer access your files you need, since you do business! So cancelling of subscriptions basically never happens, turning your company into a gold mine. The reason why this doesn't work like in the PR statement above is the way things work in real life.įirst you lock them customers in: all their files are now in your proprietary format. As soon companies decided to switch from the possibility to let me buy their software, as in "I own this thing and I can use it indefinitely." to "rent" their software, progress came to a grinding halt most times. ![]() So for me subscription basically is equivalent with the opposite. Something competitors have for ~20 years already. The only thing that was new in this years version was slanted walls (!). ![]() Or maybe CAD/BIM products, like Revit from Autodesk. In fact, the opposite is the case! Just look at Adobe. > Subscription demands constant improvement of our product and enables us to make $Product better for you - faster. In any case I can't stand all that false statements. Not sure if I should cry or burst out in tears from laughing. It is really hard to read through all that marketing nonsense. ![]()
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