My biggest complaint about the 1Password8 situation is that i've been "self hosting" version 7 for years using iCloud sync, and it has worked perfectly. You will be in charge of maintaining critical infrastructure, as well as keeping it safe from attackers. You can indeed, but only if you accept what follows.
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Are less fortunate kids going to be able to subscribe to NY Times, WaPo, Atlantic, Guardian, National Review, American Spectator, and so on, for $5 a month each? (News aggregations such as Next Issue could resolve this, but even as Apple’s “News+” this struggles.) Even more dissatisfying when a print publication goes down the same path as cable, first charging for something that was free, then eventually layering in the same ad content as when it was free.Īrtificial scarcity based IAP, data-broker supported (ad supported is fine, individual data for content is not), and the descent into the ironic sounding “gacha” model for software or content happy meals (utilities, clickers, news, etc.) - something thoughtful has to shift before we’re living in a future less Roddenberry than Idiocracy. The least worst answer appears to be rent (with a dystopian jag into ad-supported!), and it may be the least worst for software is rent as well.Įxcept when the ongoing annual software rents have risen to the same cost as one-time purchase (again, Adobe!), contrary to bricks and mortar where the over under is often 7 years of possession and use.īack to artificial digital scarcity - I’m concerned that advertiser funded access to quality writing is losing ground to monthly subscriptions for content. The flip side of this, economic models are still dissatisfying for affordability of basic bricks and mortar world rights such as housing. Today’s dev efforts suggest the sweet spot may be 30 years back.
(Editors whether text or code, like JetBrains mentioned, seem to have a jump on this clever - and rare positive - use of IAP.) It’s difficult to show what increased utility of word processing has come from the most recent 20 years of paying for word processing upgrades. I also like the experimentation by these Makers in ability to purchase a ‘pinned’ feature set, or support ongoing refinement. Affinity and feature sets I own instead of rent when these recurring subscriptions don’t appear to meaningfully benefit my productivity or output.įor instance, it’s remarkable to me how similar the principles are between today’s (re-)emergence of Markdown for document composition and the early WordStar / WordPerfect / AppleWriter tools of the 80’s. I like paying for generational or disruptive change, “voting with my wallet” on what’s of worth to me, but after a couple decades of purchasing generations of Adobe software only when the features mattered to my work, I moved from Adobe to e.g. I do have a problem inflicting artificial digital scarcity of utility or enjoyment on the masses to create the ‘hook’ for whales.Īs for subscriptions, it’s not clear to me that the treadmill of software/hardware upgrades is benefiting core use cases. I don’t mind extracting cash from whales who can afford it. An vast class of less fortunate consumers either resign to less utility or waste time on an artificial “grind”, to encourage another class of “whale” to drive corporate revenues. I’ve argued - here, since inception of IAP on Apple’s app store - that the worst thing Apple has done to consumers was normalize removing the ability to show only single purchase paid apps in the app store. > For something like jetbrains, I'm okay with a renewal fee because if I choose not to pay it, I can still use the older version.įurther, the only thing I like less than subscriptions is IAP not of new feature sets but ‘pay-to-play’ where the mechanics of use are negatively distorted to gamify purchase impulse.
Not to mention the exercise of ethnocentric privilege implicit in demanding something of quality in exchange for nothing assured. Tools for work are more craft than art, and deserve to earn, especially as patronage or maker communes are in short supply. I call BS - unless one is independently wealthy, to spend maker time on art or craft requires one to either earn money or enjoy patronage. Pre-emptive “edit” before this comment has replies: Folks post a lot of arguments for “free” software any time there’s a comment such as mine - but justifications largely feel like post-hoc rationalizations conflating freedom of information and ideas with freedom from paying for value, ret-con’d stories we tell ourselves.
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Is there any password management application out there that makes sharing passwords or password vaults easy but is also free?įor members of a relatively well-paid profession earning good wages from creating software, I wonder if the reluctance to support others earning money for quality work isn’t some form of cognitive dissonance.
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