2. unless one can offer me a reasonably priced "all you want from almost everywhere" like Spotify or Apple Music (and even they are just barely good enough for the price), I want to pay by tokens instead of by month.
Exceptions exist: service contracts is a place where I can accept to pay happily monthly for a number of incidents even if 90-something of them aren't used.
I also understand very well that storage has a price even if I forget it.
That said, for us who (tjknk we) remember Microsoft Office from before it became a SaaS I think it went something like this:
You buy Microsoft office x at a crazy price.
Shortly after someone else gets Microsoft Office version y and you start getting documents you can't open.
At some point you give up trying to tell people to use the old format and you pay 25-75% of the original crazy price to upgrade.
And so it goes on.
Jetbrains is one of a few companies that has made a reasonable deal for users in this regard: you get to keep forever the last version you have paid 12 months for. Could probably be improved to 6 months, but compared to everyone else I can think of it is a different league.
1. want to pay to keep companies in business
2. unless one can offer me a reasonably priced "all you want from almost everywhere" like Spotify or Apple Music (and even they are just barely good enough for the price), I want to pay by tokens instead of by month.
Exceptions exist: service contracts is a place where I can accept to pay happily monthly for a number of incidents even if 90-something of them aren't used.
I also understand very well that storage has a price even if I forget it.
That said, for us who (tjknk we) remember Microsoft Office from before it became a SaaS I think it went something like this:
You buy Microsoft office x at a crazy price.
Shortly after someone else gets Microsoft Office version y and you start getting documents you can't open.
At some point you give up trying to tell people to use the old format and you pay 25-75% of the original crazy price to upgrade.
And so it goes on.
Jetbrains is one of a few companies that has made a reasonable deal for users in this regard: you get to keep forever the last version you have paid 12 months for. Could probably be improved to 6 months, but compared to everyone else I can think of it is a different league.