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by EduardMe
2024 days ago
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I have to disagree (obviously). Users are not trapped in with NotePlan. If your are not satisfied with the service, you can cancel, so my incentive is to retain you on the grounds of providing good software. And NotePlan is designed in a future-proof way. Your notes are saved as plain text files, you can open them even with TextEdit. Besides the full-time development of the app, you also get quick, direct support. Try that with most one-time payment software. I sit down and reply to emails every day for 2-3 hours. Further, your suggested model is not possible with the AppStore. Updates go through without license checks. |
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Plaintext is worthless if you lack the business-logic used to utilize it. Your vendor lockin is the software itself, it's abilities and the users habits and workflows building on it.
True, it's not a strong lockin, but for 99% of all new users it's the major reason to avoid your software. Which is ok, you should know your numbers best, but you should be also aware that this price-model does kill off your growth completly in the area of casual & random users. So I hope for your your community has enough harddie-fans who will still go with this.
> you also get quick, direct support.
How many percent of the users make even use of this? More than 1%?
> Further, your suggested model is not possible with the AppStore. Updates go through without license checks.
That's not really true, though yes, not possible as directly as described. But there are many ways to reach similar effects even with the app store.