Some apps that I purchased before in full, later turned into subscription based apps(giving me a year of free subscription). This made me feel bad and I lost my warm and fizzy feelings towards these apps.
That said, I understand why they are doing it. It doesn't make sense whatsoever to receive one time payment and provide updates forever.
This. While justified, so many apps messed up the switch to subscriptions.
We recently switched our app Genius Scan to a subscription model, but tried to do it The Right Way: users who had purchased the pro features automatically got subscribed to our Plus plan for life.
New users will have to subscribe though, as it's the only way to be sustainable.
We also introduced a new plan, Ultra, with more advanced features. This way, we still get a chance for long time users to support us if they upgrade to the Ultra plan.
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This. While justified, so many apps messed up the switch to subscriptions.
We recently switched our app Genius Scan to a subscription model, but tried to do it The Right Way: users who had purchased the pro features automatically got subscribed to our Plus plan for life.
New users will have to subscribe though, as it's the only way to be sustainable.
We also introduced a new plan, Ultra, with more advanced features. This way, we still get a chance for long time users to support us if they upgrade to the Ultra plan.