However, they weren't even bringing enough value without subscription or with ads
This value is objective? Therein lies the issue with this argument. For some people, a spam blocking app is a waste of $2/mo. For another person, it saves them a ton of headache. I'm currently subscribed to 12 apps on my iPhone and I have 20 others that I let expire over the past year - I pay for them because I enjoy them and would like to support the developers and to continue using them. I have a ton of paid apps from years past that are now just junk, because the $5 the developer charged 10 years ago couldn't support development for 10 years of service. Subscriptions are the answer to that problem.
Subscriptions will naturally go away if they don't work, but that also means those services/products go away as well.
Also where is this data on flattening subscriber growth that you have access to?
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This value is objective? Therein lies the issue with this argument. For some people, a spam blocking app is a waste of $2/mo. For another person, it saves them a ton of headache. I'm currently subscribed to 12 apps on my iPhone and I have 20 others that I let expire over the past year - I pay for them because I enjoy them and would like to support the developers and to continue using them. I have a ton of paid apps from years past that are now just junk, because the $5 the developer charged 10 years ago couldn't support development for 10 years of service. Subscriptions are the answer to that problem.
Subscriptions will naturally go away if they don't work, but that also means those services/products go away as well.
Also where is this data on flattening subscriber growth that you have access to?