Company want to get money from user who don’t want to pay.
Problem is, those didn’t want to pay never will.
Those afford to paid can’t afford the new pricing structure.
One of my software went from $50 per version for 5pcs to $150 per year for one pc.
And yet the automotive industry switches models every 3-5 years and you can either lease or buy out right.
I think what is happening is that we have created a ton of “Developer” jobs and are running out of actual unique and innovative ideas to develop.
So SW has a staff of 2K or so and a bunch of them are sitting around “Developing” stuff that 90% of the users are never going to use. It’s “Development Bloat” based on the fact they have everyone on subscription and or extort those that aren’t. I’m on 2018 SP5 and have yet to see something in 2019,2020 or 2021 that I would look at and say “Wow that would REALLY help and make me more productive”. Again I suspect this is the case for 90% of users.
This is the case for many sectors it seems, even health care. We are all on “Subscription health care”. We keep sending them money and they come up with a “New fantastic drug” that instead of a 95% chance of curing your issue it has a 96% chance of curing your issue but it cost 100X more than the previous drug…that money is coming from our subscriptions in the same way that new “NoOneIsGoingToUse” feature in SW is paid for with subscription.
Nobody want a steady business anymore. Its growth growth growth.
Problem is, there are only so may people on earth. Business can’t grow non-stop.
I’m a firm believer in the idea that if you’re not growing you’re dying. That being said selling 10000 copies of your software one year and selling 11000 the next is growth. You can continue that level of growth for 100 years and still only have sold ~100 million copies of your software…we have a lot more people on the planet than that.
Furthermore one would think that a company could come up with another product to sell over that 100 years, which of course is my point. Give me a reason to want to buy your product again and I will. If in 100 years you haven’t come up with something that makes your customers want to purchase your product again…you deserve to die.
Well I don’t think everyone want a copy of SW.
In reality one can only grow so big before run out of resource.
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mmmm… cornish game hen. UU
..ex wifes parents were very conservative (from Indiana) and they were into Leasing everything…mainly because they moved a lot because of military and businesses (like Bechtel) they worked with… my thoughts then and now… the own nothings… or rent-a-parasites.
Image if you bought car and could only lease, they don’t let you own it. That’s what the software companies are attempting, and it stinks. Adobe did it with Photoshop because the market is saturated, their products are mature, and they have little competition. They don’t want to work to make it better and “entice” people to buy the new version, so they switched to a lease and force you to pay month to month. So I bought Affinity Photo and Publisher instead, one time purchase for $50.
Autodesk has done the same, all of their software is subscription only. Microsoft Office has done it, PTC has done it. Ironically, CATIA has always been that way. (Found out the hard way in '98 when switching to SolidWorks).
https://www.eoshd.com/adobe/adobe-shambles-why-subscription-software-should-be-illegal/
Microsoft hasn’t done it, I’m pretty sure they updated the 2019 to 2021 this year as standalone. Obviously they want you to buy subscription and push that but if you delve deeper you can find the standalone version. I bought the 2019 version when it was first available, I have no intention of upgrading for a good few years.
By the way, where’s MJuric?
Just imagine how fast the chicken must be traveling to not only squeeze into the duck but to propel that into the turkey!