[makecheck]

It’s absolutely soul-crushing to see the software market warped by broken store models. Legitimate developers can’t seem to convince people to pay anywhere near enough to sustain a business, and meanwhile scammers get millions.

[heavyset_go]

> It’s absolutely soul-crushing to see the software market warped by broken store models

What makes it worse, in my mind, is that the entirety of the mobile application market has been held hostage by these rent-seeking app store models for over a decade, now.

[annoyingnoob]

I miss the pre-internet and pre-smartphone days when you could buy software at a reasonable price and use it in perpetuity.

[Doubtme]

By design.