It doesn’t just “get updated”. Someone has to update it. Someone has to do the work to maintain that app. To do that, someone has to get paid.
I was replying to someone who said they would be left behind. I was saying that with the subscription service on this app, you will still get updates for the paid version.
What free labour ?
I would, and I have.
I've read back through the thread and literally nobody has compared these apps to Photoshop. It's more philosophical about pricing and sales strategies. Are you just angry about your Adobe subscription? Who cares if you're a "true power user"? Weird flex.
For the streaming services in general like if you watch through a desktop web browser, if you just wanted 1 month's worth, I thought you could just sub, immediately cancel, and then ride out the month knowing that it won't auto-renew. How is this any different than what the iOS App Store does?You can do this for any subscription in the App store. That’s actually why Netflix DOESN’T want their subscription paid through the app storeIt’s too easy to “turn it on for a month” and immediately unsubscribe.
I really do wonder what the actual piracy rates are these days. While it's not trivial to jailbreak an iOS device, it's not difficult either. I know people pirated photoshop like crazy since it was, crazy expensive. But dunno if these sorts of apps would be available. I figured people these days are on the lazier side (including yours truly
), so they'll just find free alternatives, or call the whole thing off and move on.The main difference is for someone that signs up and forgets about it. Going through Apple, all current subscriptions are in one place, with a simple swipe to cancel. It’s info at-a-glance that makes management easy.
That, too, but they are currently willing to give Apple their 30% cut when a user signs up for the lowest package, (the one that allows access to the games), so they’re not wholly against it. The bigger issue for them is that people were FAR more likely to cancel and resubscribe later (they call it churn) when “Netflix” was listed right there in subscriptions. Removing it from there meant people just stayed subscribed, which is better/more consistent for their bottom line.
Heh.. reminds me of an issue my father had months back... His copy of Microsoft Office 2002 stopped working, and he got pushed to sub to Office 365. Frankly, I'm surprised it took 20 years for it to finally stop working, and that it worked into Windows 10 no less! As far as tech goes, he's generally against paying anything (although TBF, he's long retired and never spent much time on computers even when he was working), so no one-time purchase, let alone subscriptions. He just uses the basic with Office productivity (no macros, nor pivot tables), so we installed Libre Office and called it a day.
Yeah, productivity and business have always been a whole different beast. Without some of these pieces of software, you don't make money. The value proposition there is, spending $30 a year to tens of thousands of $'s per year is justified when it makes you up to millions of $'s per year, or otherwise 5x to 25x what you spent. Those devs have gotten complaints that their apps are just too expensive. They just counter that their apps have saved their users hundreds to thousands of hours of worker time. If a typical employee is charging even $35 an hour, the savings are still significant.
If you haven't already, consider rotating streaming services. For me, this easily keeps it to under $20 a month (average has been $13 a month thus far), and I get them ad-free. OTOH, I'm not interested in live TV nor sports, so this simplifies that a whole lot.
Heh, that tops me. I started off on an IpT3, but still have my iPod Touch 5. It's still on ios7, so I long turned off the bt and wifi. It's pretty much a glorified calculator, timer, flashlight, and reference guide, but b/c it's so slim and small, I carry it with me anyways. When I travel, I still need a lightning cable for my iPad, so that's covered as well.This is only true if the developer was motivated to continue supporting the product without any additional payment. My purchase queue is full of apps that have been abandoned and no longer work. (Of course, they still work on my iPod touch gen2.
That's actually been known in the developer circles for over a decade, if not more. A podcast I listened to around 2016 mentioned the only way to really go is to charge premium pricing, or utilize subscriptions. Premium pricing to them was at least 5x what they were charging then. An article about somebody who worked at a company who made freemium/"free to play" games mentioned something similar that if people were willing to pay $20 to $50 per game, then the mobile gaming landscape could've been much more different. But we're stuck with what we got now.
My point is that, for very many people, the “value proposition” is “helping out the developer”. IAP’s for games pulls in a LOT of money for developers, across all of them it’s quite a large amount of money. The fact now is that subscriptions, for non-game apps, are making developers (as a whole) MORE than game IAP’s. And, a lot of these folks aren’t professionals, they’re only using the apps for their personal use. They’ve just got disposable income to the point where giving 3, 5, or more dollars a month to a developer in the way of a subscription doesn’t break them and provides much needed funds for the developers.
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People yearn for the olden days of the 80s and 90s when video games didn't have ads nor very consumer hostile MTX. However, same deal... competition in those days wasn't as fierce as they are today. Also, games of those days would set you back $50 to $60. With inflation, that'd be $91 to $171 today. If people were willing to pay that much for software on the app store, subs, MTX, and ads would've taken a completely different trajectory.
It doesn't say piracy was 60% on iOS. It said "either pirate it or nab the puzzler for free". Monument Valley was offered for free at multiple times.
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Piracy wasn’t on iOS 60%. The article states:
If you are that good of course you could make money using Affinity. What are you talking about?
