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Software subscriptions: you own nothing and you'll be happy (www.theverge.com)

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Same company acquired two very similar apps.

One required a $14/year subscription, the other $90/year

So they "carefully considered this decision" by delisting the cheaper one for the more expensive one. Boom, 500% cost increase

Don't want to pay? Well, your files are hostage. Stop paying and lose your data.

Ps: remember the lie "subscription for software assures constant updates"?

The announcement serves as the final nail in the coffin for one of the iPad’s oldest and most popular sculpting apps, which hasn’t received any major updates since 2023.

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[-] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 73 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Any Software that I previously used that switched to a subscription model has been replaced by FOSS on my end, even if it’s not fully up to par yet I am usually much happier with the alternatives.

Plex > Jellyfin

Office > Libreoffice / Collabra

Photoshop > Gimp

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[-] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 1 points 17 hours ago

If you didn't switch already, switching from Windows to Linux might be a good idea soon too, especially with Win10 going EOL, and Win11 not only basically forcing new hardware in a lot of cases, but also being really bad as an OS atm.

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