The one thing that really bugs me these days is that every company is trying to get some kinda continuous revenue stream, instead of trying to improve product after product. Back in the day a company would come out with a product, then once it hit end of life, they'd come up with something new, and sell it outright again. It seems to me that so many companies are trying to hemmorage money out of consumers via monthly payments. It used to be that the only consumer products really that required such a commitment were cell phones. To me, the TIVO lifetime subscription was the last of it's breed. It's getting to the point where i have so many different monthly reoccuring costs, that it's getting quite ridiculous. I know this is the way businesses these day just run, because it of course makes them more money. But honestly, im going to hate the day that software becomes entirely subscription based, and to use Windows you'll have to pay a $10 per month fee.
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The one thing that really bugs me these days is that every company is trying to get some kinda continuous revenue stream, instead of trying to improve product after product. Back in the day a company would come out with a product, then once it hit end of life, they'd come up with something new, and sell it outright again. It seems to me that so many companies are trying to hemmorage money out of consumers via monthly payments. It used to be that the only consumer products really that required such a commitment were cell phones. To me, the TIVO lifetime subscription was the last of it's breed. It's getting to the point where i have so many different monthly reoccuring costs, that it's getting quite ridiculous. I know this is the way businesses these day just run, because it of course makes them more money. But honestly, im going to hate the day that software becomes entirely subscription based, and to use Windows you'll have to pay a $10 per month fee.