[gnicholas]

For me (as someone who hates subscriptions personally), the difference is that subscriptions I buy for my business help me generate recurring revenue. In my personal life, subscriptions perhaps make my life easier, but do not have the same leverage to create continuing benefit.

So I'm much more willing to buy subscriptions to help me generate not only more revenue but essentially a decaying annuity (due to churn) than I am to buy subscriptions for some personal benefit that disappears the moment I stop paying.