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by version_five
1206 days ago
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SaaS and thus subscriptions makes sense when the software itself is offering a service. The example I always use is office365, or Gsuite. They offer storage, email, and online access to the office suites and email. It's "value add" over just paying a tax for the privilege of running code, and is imo a better proposition than having to pay outright for a static version of the tools. The same is true for like Salesforce or other big name SaaS. What rubs me the wrong way is when what are effectively utilities try and market themselves through a subscription. There were a couple image processing tools posted here recently that effectively just did some image transforms, and they wanted a subscription fee. I don't think that's a reasonable model, there is no reason why I'd want to pay a recurring fee for what amounts to a neat script. I think there's currently much of trying to cram utility software that doesn't provide a service into a service model |
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