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by radoslawc
2170 days ago
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It just a way to squeeze some more money out of customers. Add some nice marketing babble that it's for customer's own good (lower maintenance fees, offer simplified pricing, add elasticity, energy, synergy, bulshitergy) and here you have it: "I'm sorry your subscription for AC has expired".
Funny enough there already are lines of cars where engine power and torque is just set in software, so buying most expansive engine version is just buying cheapest version with some variable in ECU software set to different value. For me this is equivalent of selling premium version of application which has sleep=10 removed from every loop and advertise it as many times faster.
Why people are accepting this? Take SketchUp for example, they recently went subscription only and CAD software has somewhat steep learning curve, and you kind of learn using it as "muscle memory" of shortcuts and general flow. I bet many people will just buy subscription just for convenience of going on with their work or hobby projects in familiar software. |
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Do I cost an airline more money to transport me out on a Monday and back on a Friday than the converse? (I suspect not, but not staying Saturday night makes the former ticket more expensive on many carriers.) Does SSO really cost as much to provide as the “enterprise pricing” tier suggests?
Those higher priced business flights or enterprise tier purchases help subsidize the lower cost options, making it possible to sell a base version and a deluxe and get enough revenue to make the economics attractive.
I remember years ago shopping for a Jeep Wrangler. There was a ~$175 option for a larger gas tank (22 vs 18 gallons or so). If you bought the option, you got the same physical tank and a shorter pipe from the filler into the top of the tank (so more fuel would go in before the pump clicked off). To the buyer of the Jeep, that option was worth something. I’m OK with Jeep offering it. (I wouldn’t buy it, since you could easily install the “larger tank” with a hacksaw, but I’m sure many did.)