Again if it’s an app I seriously use it’s clearly worth that. It’s cheaper than two Grande Frozen Açaí Lemonades at Starbucks for a whole year’s support. If it’s really an app I’m going to use, and is important to me, then honestly that is peanuts. So I just think of it as a onetime payment for use of GN6.īut even if you take the $10/year payment model, that’s less than $0.84/month for support of the app. I’ve posted another reply here, and I’ve chosen the one-time payment over the annual payment because, for personal use apps, I don’t really care for the uncertainty of how many years. I already investing significant time in moving data and usage to UpNote and Agenda, so GoodNotes has to really step up to make the cut for me for on-going use 1-2 years from now. I really hope that developers will focus more on user feature requests, and less on the AI shiny object in the market, and I’m betting by my upgrade that over time GoodNotes 6 will have some more features I will use - if not I won’t upgrade to Rel 7. The only Rel 6 improvement I’ve seen so far I might use is colored folders, and honestly if I were choosing to upgrade based on features, GoodNotes 6 wouldn’t make the cut for me. Also honestly I have serious concerns about the functionality released with GoodNotes 6. I have no need for multi-platform functionality provided by their subscription model. And that’s my primary reason for doing the upgrade, even though with a price in the $30 range I’m expecting GoodNotes 6 to be the release for next 24-36 months with good support, before they go to the next major release with another upgrade price. As I noted developers have a reasonable expectation of some funding for on-going support. But the event you find it necessary to discontinue your premium subscription, from that point on, you’re entitled to keep in perpetuity all the premium features released up to that point.įollowing my logic above, I have upgraded my GoodNotes 5 app to GoodNotes 6 using the lifetime payment option. And while you have your subscription active, you get all new premium features. In their model you purchase a subscription to access premium features. IMHO the gold standard in a personal app Subscription model is the Subscription model deployed by the Agenda app developers. (I would put UpNote in the same category as Evernote.) For clarification, even though some might consider/use Evernote as a note taking app, I treat Evernote as a document repository with a advanced search capability. But I won’t buy a note taking app as a subscription app. This is a bit nuanced, since I consider some apps as services, such as Adobe, Evernote, etc. I generally won’t buy an personal app where I lose functionality when the subscription expires. If they are not, then developers are as well living in a fantasyland And it can’t just be based on what developers want to implement (if they wish to be successful) - it has to also respond to user requests. If a Subscription costs anything more than $1-2 per month, then developers should be making a commitment to implementing new features, based on both user requests, and on market dynamics, on a very regular basis - it can’t be just a best effort basis. Anyone who expects to get this for their lifetime for free, based on having a paid a one-time fixed price 2 years ago, is living in fantasyland Developers are entitled to and should be able to expect some payment on an ongoing basis for ongoing support - its costs time & effort to fix bugs, update for new iOS releases, etc. purchasing a subscription for a app that has only 1-2 developers behind it, is VERY VERY different. Purchasing a subscription from Adobe where there is a large corporate entity behind a app, vs. If permanent licenses are not available, then I’m more more skeptical of selecting an application that requires a Subscription, and where I lose the functionality on subscription end/expiry, because there is no corresponding guarantee that the app development team will even be there, and also in most cases code has not been put in escrow to ensure I have ongoing availability to the app, if something happens to the developer(s). As a user I’m choosing apps now based on whether or not I can purchase permanent licenses or not. I have a license to GoodNotes 5 and use it occasionallyĪs a personal app user - IMHO there is an over-rotation in general to the Subscription Model. I work in the tech sector and understand the general trend toward the Subscription model This may get voted down, but I’ll provide my opinion.
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