When weighing value I do take into account what I previously paid for something but also recognizes that costs generally go up over time so the biggest factor is current value as opposed to I remember when a nickel would buy me… I also prefer watching clouds and looking for the pretty pictures they often form, to yelling at them. (I’ve made lots of money over the years helping clients recover from workflows allowed to stagnate.) YWsWV.
#1password 7 standalone license price update#
In general, I am not one to evaluate updates - if I’m using software and an update version appears I will be purchasing the update as I see no benefit, and often find difficulties, in letting a workflow live in the past. All told (and mostly due to the Adobe sub) find that subscriptions have saved me money over updates. I evaluate subscription plans to determine whether or not the software provides sufficient value and despite some initial concerns, I am mostly satisfied with the subscription plans for the software I currently rent. (I still harbor ill will regarding the demise of Aperture.) All of my editing and post processing needs are covered by other offerings. I currently have subscriptions for Adobe “Photo geek” studio, 1Password (iOS, Mac) and Drafts 5 (iOS.) Of these the Adobe is the most likely to go - I’m just waiting for an acceptable (to me) image manager to emerge. I’m not going to throw down any never, never gauntlets. I get that the decision for an end user is harder, however.)
(to be clear: I'm a proponent of software subscriptions from my perspective of a business owner-fixed, predictable, known costs are always preferable to me than unexpected ones. If Apple makes signing up for a software subscription easy, and brings developers on-board, there's a chunk of end users who won't evaluate that at all, they'll simply go along with it because that's why they're Apple users: They don't have to evaluate it, they trust and they buy. One role Apple plays in any market it enters or with any move it makes is wielding trust. For obvious reasons: Apple likes its growing services revenue, of which subscription fees collected via the App Stores is a part (you're going to see Mac-software-as-a-subscription get a huge boost with the re-vamped App Store coming in Mojave). Personally, I'm not hemming and hawing about anything, just trying to explain why a 1Password subscription is problematic while taking time that I have, because 1Password 6 doesn't break every couple weeks due to some new security "incident" to allow AgileBits to respond and otherwise figure out what I want to do about the situation.Ĭlick to expand.Were this occurring in a vacuum, then perhaps, but as has been well-covered in other threads here about the rise of subscription software, the push to engage end users with subscription plan is coming straight from the top-Apple is encouraging and even helping developers to move in this direction.
(Or are you just trying to convince everyone else these people don't matter? I'm not actually sure.) Doubly so when paired with disparaging comments about literally the entire group you seem to be trying to convince to jump on the subscription bandwagon. (And this is definitely the first time I've heard this particular theory on converting pirates to paying customers.) Why even put this sort of speculation out there? It just makes it harder to take anything else you claim seriously. I'm not saying you're wrong, but we have no data to back this up one way or the other.
Meanwhile the people for whom subscription pricing is attractive are added to the ranks of paying customers including pirates, as subscriptions do a decent job of bringing pirates in from the cold. They're off hemming and hawing about whether the most recent version is worth a new license and celebrating their ability not to pay so the revenue impact of losing them is mixed. Click to expand.I think you overestimate the value of the people that won't.
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