[vineyardmike]

> People will refuse to pay $50 once for software but will happily pay $20-$50 per month for a service that offers less performance, no privacy, worse security, no continuity if you stop using it, fuzzy ownership of your own data, and a system that utterly vaporizes if the company goes away.

Daily reminder for HN that if the service you buy is an ongoing service then paying once doesn’t work. If the company has a monthly expense related to servicing you, it makes sense to have a monthly payment to them. Dropbox et al. can’t be “buy once” because that’s not how the cost of data centers work.

[api]

Parent was asking why we didn't get something like Syncthing or this that did not rely so much on data centers.