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by motohagiography
1390 days ago
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This could be co-opted as evidence for the theory as well, where all these products that are converting to services models are economic "inferior goods," where you switch away from them when you can afford something better. Month-to-month subscriptions are what you have when the product isn't good enough to buy an annual one, or just buy it outright. The companies position themselves that way because they want to take advantage of peoples indifference to small subscriptions - because they know their products are objectively lame. |
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Hmmm. I may be odd, but I and everyone I know have a very high resistance to subscriptions, even small ones, because they are maintenance and just a general budget leak. My impression of the reason that companies want subscriptions is that they tend to extract much more revenue from the customer; of course they don't get it all up front, but recurring revenue streams and especially that continue even when the product provides no value (e.g., the customer forgets about the ongoing charges), can be ridiculously profitable.