A company just sent me an email to justify their switch to a subscription model. This was my reply:
I’ve been on software advisory boards for billion dollar companies like Autodesk and others, and on beta testing teams since the 1990s when there was no such thing as a “public beta.” I absolutely understand that development costs money and resources, but the subscription model was something concocted by bankers.... 1/
Even in your email, your excuses for your subscription model are garden variety landlord sound bites. “But we keep the property maintained and manage repairs! Just keep paying us rent or we’ll evict you.” And that’s exactly what happens when one cancels their rent to Adobe or whoever. You no longer get access to the tools to reload any old projects you may have archived. So no, I will not pay any software landlord and will find a competitor’s product without this protection racket scheme.
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