[JohnFen]

In terms of the larger market, I have no idea. However, I avoid SaaS things, and I won't go for software "subscriptions", so unless your product offers the ability to pay a single fee and run it on my own machines, I wouldn't be your customer.

[bigscrankus]

Yes, you and many others remind me of this in my email inbox every day.

It doesn’t change the fact that software is expensive to maintain and even relatively simple apps can cost millions of dollars in human-hours to support. SaaS is the safest path to that, and if users don’t want to pay a premium (>$200ish, in my case) for offline, SaaS will stay that way.

[JohnFen]

I'm not arguing that SaaS is good or bad, just that it isn't for me. You were asking if you're leaving money on the table by not offering a non-Saas, non-subscription plan and I was just saying yes, you are. I don't know if the amount of money is worth it for you, though. Only you can determine that.

[bigscrankus]

Appreciate it! Apologies for sounding snarky; traveling and very jet lagged.

[scarface_74]

And honestly you’re an outlier - Microsoft and Adobe make money hand over fist in subscriptions.

I gladly pay $129 a year for 5 users of MS office and each user can use the software on multiple platforms and have 1TB of storage