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$11.99 per year ☹️
However if I had to buy a new Moleskine instead every year that would cost similar…
But I already pay for Youtube, iCloud, Dropbox, Google drive, MS office, Spotify and now it will be another pain in the ass 😕
Out of interest, why are you paying for four different storage services?
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Slideshow Pro is Free usually $1.99
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/slideshow-master-pro/id1538546824
With all the current and future updates Apple Notes might be the best bet. Saw some techies talking about it when iOS 14 dropped. Probably just as good or getting there.
This is the question I used to ask myself time to time…
iCloud: because of my iPad
Dropbox: This was my very first cloud storage. Some of my apps on my Android phone use it. Furthermore Dropbox is integrated very well into the iOS ecosystem and it can connect the 2 ecosystems at least on file level.
Google drive: because of my Android phone, gmail mailbox.
OneDrive: It’s given since it’s part of my MSOffice subscription that is vital to me.
So this was the scientific explanation…
The real reason might be I’m too lazy to find out how to optimize my things and use max 2 cloud storages.
The question is: what if apps like Cubasis, AUM, Drambo, Fabfilter apps, Synthmaster apps etc. switch to annual subscription plan one day?
Surely this is illegal? You buy a non-subscrption app and then later the developer takes it away and demands a subscrption, something you never agreed to purchase.
Not sure about the legality but that is the beef people have with Notability where an app update effectively (and without due warning) turned the app into a subscription app. I didn’t update it myself as the update text did make me suspicious so it will be interesting to see if they slipped some code into an earlier update to hobble to app when they switch over to the sub model. I don’t mind particularly that they are switching to a subscription model but that was not the way to go about it and hopefully the market will decide.
Could be that they are trying to wring some last cash out of the app as the native Notes app is catching up in a number of areas.
I’m afraid this is legal. When buying a software you don‘t own the software, you buy a license to use the software. A license for a future version can be changed. I think what would be illegal is if the license is changed without giving you a chance to accept the new terms or deny them. And I think that you must be able to use the latest version you have licensed before the license change that you deny. At least until end of life (maintenance) of the licensed version.
It should be but there will be small print aka how to fuck your customers with zero accountability. Also, I am willing to bet a wad of cash that there will be customers of many years sending them messages of congrats and wishing them well with their new business model.
Time for unhappy users to post a few one star, negative reviews.
Yeahhhh... that's not actually what the reviews are for, is it? Imo, anyone who does that doesn't have an opinion worth my time.
Isn't it? If you are not happy with the software for whatever reason why shouldn't you say so in your review? You don't have to lie - you can say why you are not happy with the new version.
Yeah you can but 1 star reviews are just there to fuck a dev. I guess we disagree. Fair enough. You're not wrong, imo but I just don't like seeing that.
I think it will be 'automatically' regulated by the market itself. There are about 100 music apps on my iPad. Obviously I wouldn't pay montly fee for all.
I'm pretty sure that there is a very-very limited number of music apps the users would pay recurring fee for.
If all the devs forced this subscription model the users would buy significatly less apps.
Maybe some very big title could go towards the subscription model, the rest must stay with the standard one time price model, otherwise they would be out of the game.
I agree, there will be new apps developed in their places. I've also never paid for any subscription. If I can be without subscribing to Photoshop and Lightroom, I can hold out for any apps!
Short of that, if the worst comes, there's always hardware...
I've owned Notabiliy since v1 and have been pleasantly surprised that the developer hasn't charged for a single update over the years. Probably a bad business decision on their part. But I don't feel I have a right to be angry about their decision to go subscription. It's their business, and when they've been giving away all their hard work for free for 10+ years, who am I to say they don't have a right to change their business model.
We're not talking about a $300 software package here. If I remember rightly it was under $10. And speaking personally I've had far more than $10 worth of value from the app in 10+ years.
I'm hoping that the developer does the same as the Ulysses developers, who allow you to have both the subscription version of Ulysses on your device and the last paid-for version (if it will load on the current OS). I was never going to pay $50 a year to continue using Ulysses but I'm more than happy to pay my monthly subscription to SetApp to run their apps on my Macs and iOS devices, inclusive of Ulysses on both iOS and macOS. Setapp currently have approx 230 apps in their library, and whilst I don't use all of them I use enough of them to feel that I'm getting good value for money. Many of the apps are apps I previously owned and regularly had to pay upgrade fees.
The vast majority of Mac and iOS/iPadOS developers are individuals, and the App economy makes it very hard to earn a living from App development. It's not just in the music sector where app development is often a second job, as the income received from selling apps wouldn't put food on the table for one never mind a family.
I'm neither pro nor anti subscriptions. But I do believe everyone deserves to earn a fair wage for the work they do.
When it comes to subscriptions, I tend only to do it where I see a decent aggregate value, much as I get from Setapp with it's 230 apps. I also have a family Apple One subscription which is probably the best value of any of my subscriptions as between my partner, I and her kids, as we all use most of what's included in one way or another. And the Microsoft Office subscription is worth it for the cloud data alone (across the family). Yet again with Adobe, the subscription costs me less than it used to cost me to maintain my Photoshop/Illustrator/After Effects/Premiere & Flash (Animate) applications with regular upgrade fees (but I still keep all my CS6 boxes should I change my mind). I do begrudge my Dropbox subscription since they limited the number of devices that could access it with the free plan (I accrued enough bonus storage in the early days of Dropbox a free account should be fine but then they limited access to three devices, which isn't enough foe me), but I'm tied to it for now as a couple of essential apps/services will only sync via Dropbox but now that iCloud Drive has become more reliable I'll be dropping Dropbox before it's annual renewal comes around.
The great thing about the open market is that for every Adobe, an Affinity will rise to offer an alternative but these challengers can't be guaranteed to offer the same UX/capability advantages.
As an Ableton user, I feel lucky that I don't have to face yearly updates as Cubase users do (it's approximately 3 years between Ableton paid upgrades). But when it comes to pro software, as long as I'm earning enough to cover the upgrade fees I tend to pay up, especially with companies that allow you to skip upgrade cycles without later paying a penalty.
The Apple ecosystem will only continue to go ever deeper down the subscription rabbit hole. And unfortunately Android isn't a replacement if you have music as a creative pastime!
Developers should create sub version of their app, not subvert a previously paid app, yes it’s been a long time with free updated software, aside from IAP revenue, but bottom line, I’ll boycott any developer who uses such practices.
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This is my attitude to cloud storage too. They each serve a different purpose.
I'm much the same with music subscriptions. Spotify was my first and it's the one that knows me best so it's great for music discovery, I get Apple Music as part of my Apple One subscription and have discovered it has the best 'Classical' catalogue so I use it strictly for that style of music and I have Tidal because of the audio quality. A lot of the stuff I discover through Spotify, I listen to via Tidal.
OT but how is Apple lossless comparing to Tidal?
The thing I've found with lossless is that each streaming service can have significant differences in their catalogues. Both Tidal and Apple Music will often have the same content but the mastering can sound different. I think it's beneficial to have both, especially if you're listening through decent kit, be that headphones or speakers.
Not sure why the differences exist, I suspect each is employing their own middleware processing to 'optimise' the playback. Plus with a lot of content on the streaming services, the record companies supply unmastered content (this happens a lot with older jazz, funk, ska, soul etc, etc). What you get on the streaming service can sound significantly different to the CD/vinyl.
Some sales
Anyone ever buy MicSwap Pro? It seems cool but I always feel cautious about buying it…
3 Pham apps on sale from $5.99 down to $3.99
Maze Rider
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/maze-rider-auto-leveling/id1521409352
And these two.
I don’t have it but there might be some threads in this forum about it…
Theses several from last few years…
Micswap site:https://forum.audiob.us/
Edit - link didn’t come through right, sorry, you can either Google that entire phrase above, or search micswap in search bar.
If subscriptions were the norm, I wouldn't own the twenty or so delay apps I currently have. Maybe one or two at the most.
@animalelder I have it, I like it. Can’t remember who or where, but a few people commented negatively on it when I posed a question about where to put it in the chain. The reasoning given for it’s suckiness was that it only adds EQ and some other technical points that were above my pay grade. What I do know is that I like the color a couple of the microphones add. Rap vocals sounds better to me when MSP is in the chain. I was told by the dev that it should be first in the vocal chain incidentally.
I have it and like it… but have big problems using it in Cubasis. Stops working, can freeze Cubasis and you have to delete the app to get things working again.