<story><title>An iOS app update that annoys me</title><url>https://jpmens.net/2021/05/16/an-ios-app-update-that-really-annoys-me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>techsupporter</author><text>&amp;gt; with anything else meaning “upgrade to PRO” which, by the way, costs EUR 0.99 monthly or EUR 8.99 per annum.&lt;p&gt;This is exactly what I expected to read when I started reading.  So many apps have done this to me that I&amp;#x27;m now hesitant to install, and become dependent on, any new apps.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m genuinely sorry, but I&amp;#x27;m not paying a subscription for an app that doesn&amp;#x27;t do a lot of back-end work (that&amp;#x27;s valuable to me).  No, syncing doesn&amp;#x27;t count; I have iCloud and Nextcloud and the share sheet functionality for that.  No, social features don&amp;#x27;t count either.  This goes quadruple for apps that have a feature enabled and then sneak it behind a paywall many updates later.&lt;p&gt;And when I write that I&amp;#x27;m genuinely sorry, I really am!  I know that developers need to earn a living but I&amp;#x27;m not willing to sustain it on the back of 10 or 20 or 30 &amp;quot;low annual price of just $9 or $15 or $25 or $49 per year!&amp;quot; subscriptions.  If that means fewer apps or fewer people making their living at being app developers, that is bad and I hope that applies pressure on Apple and Google to add features to their app stores that make a better balance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>Apple clearly must have some strategic reason for continuing to resist this model year in and year out, but there is a proven middle ground between subscription-only and one-time-purchase licensing. Software in a handful of fields (Sketch in UX design, Bitwig Studio in music production, Jetbrains in software development) has adopted it, and it&amp;#x27;s simply where you gate &lt;i&gt;updates&lt;/i&gt; rather than &lt;i&gt;access&lt;/i&gt; by subscription.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s the fairest model there is: Developers get a recurring income stream so long as they maintain the software, while customers aren&amp;#x27;t forced to rent software ad infinitum.&lt;p&gt;I wish there were some way Epic V. Apple could force Apple to implement this. It would solve so many problems on the App Store.</text></comment>
<story><title>An iOS app update that annoys me</title><url>https://jpmens.net/2021/05/16/an-ios-app-update-that-really-annoys-me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>techsupporter</author><text>&amp;gt; with anything else meaning “upgrade to PRO” which, by the way, costs EUR 0.99 monthly or EUR 8.99 per annum.&lt;p&gt;This is exactly what I expected to read when I started reading.  So many apps have done this to me that I&amp;#x27;m now hesitant to install, and become dependent on, any new apps.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m genuinely sorry, but I&amp;#x27;m not paying a subscription for an app that doesn&amp;#x27;t do a lot of back-end work (that&amp;#x27;s valuable to me).  No, syncing doesn&amp;#x27;t count; I have iCloud and Nextcloud and the share sheet functionality for that.  No, social features don&amp;#x27;t count either.  This goes quadruple for apps that have a feature enabled and then sneak it behind a paywall many updates later.&lt;p&gt;And when I write that I&amp;#x27;m genuinely sorry, I really am!  I know that developers need to earn a living but I&amp;#x27;m not willing to sustain it on the back of 10 or 20 or 30 &amp;quot;low annual price of just $9 or $15 or $25 or $49 per year!&amp;quot; subscriptions.  If that means fewer apps or fewer people making their living at being app developers, that is bad and I hope that applies pressure on Apple and Google to add features to their app stores that make a better balance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vmception</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t have to apologize for that.&lt;p&gt;Everyone has to figure out a marketable skill until their rate of labor is exceeded by their rate of capital. If they fail they fail, whoops.&lt;p&gt;I make no claims about how anything should be. This is what it is.</text></comment>