If your costs are servers, your marginal costs are still $0 for the app itself. IMO, you're better off with a $0 app and a subscription model, than capturing the revenue once when someone purchases the app.
You are technically correct - yes, an app is not the server it is deployed on. But practically speaking, if I saw a spike in my traffic and got hit with a huge bill, I'm not going to say to myself, "gee, it wasn't the app's fault the server got really popular...".
I think you missed my point that this article applies to a very, very small category of software. As soon as you have a subscription model, or any sort of payment structure, now you need an accountant! Those guys don't work for free.
It's like, calculator apps and notepads that this philosophy applies to.
I think you missed my point that this article applies to a very, very small category of software. As soon as you have a subscription model, or any sort of payment structure, now you need an accountant! Those guys don't work for free.
It's like, calculator apps and notepads that this philosophy applies to.