[spwa4]

First, a big part of subscription is the fault of Google and Apple, and that is not given enough credit. There are plenty of non-subscription software models that obviously work. But Apple and Google don't let them work, because of money. Yes, you need infrastructure and you need to keep paying for it ... because Google and Apple make it so. There is no reason apps can't work standalone, they're just making this hard on purpose.

Second all the arguments against subscription software also apply against essentially every AI service everywhere.

[dabluck]

It's definitely true that Apple and Google have not allowed enough experimentation here