Gregor Vukasinovič
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Easily the most satisfying, yet most annoying 40 bucks I ever spent, both at the same time: Cancelling the subscription of Photoshop. "Imma give it a try, and if I don't like it, I'll just unsubscribe and keep using GIMP." Well, not so fast! Adobe have infamously driven that model to an extreme level, and it's slowly coming back to bite them. To be real, I find the idea of subscribing to products (which are now "services") rather scary anyway, no matter what it is.
In the past, when you were in trouble economically, you couldn't buy new things, including food, and clothes when they wore out, and other things that are, to varying degrees, essential. That was unpleasant enough. But the things you owned, had bought and paid for, they didn't go away. If ever more of the economy turns to subscription models, and I mean things way more essential than Photoshop or the seat heating in your car, that's bound to change. Life will be the point of a dagger slowly pushing towards, or indeed into your back. Always, whatever you do, wherever you go. You better not need to stop moving forward because you're not feeling well today, or need to tie a shoe lace, or need the toilet. Or because your boss isn't feeling well today. Or your customer. If any of that happens, you better have managed to get a bit of distance between yourself and the blade before it catches up with you.
Yet catch up it will, one way or another, one day or another. If nothing else, then during the next Lehman crisis or the next 9/11 or whatever there will be. Or maybe just because you said something your new cyber AI overlord doesn't agree with. You heretic!
Subscription
Easily the most satisfying, yet most annoying 40 bucks I ever spent, both at the same time: Cancelling the subscription of Photoshop. "Imma give it a try, and if I don't like it, I'll just unsubscribe and keep using GIMP." Well, not so fast! Adobe have infamously driven that model to an extreme level, and it's slowly coming back to bite them. To be real, I find the idea of subscribing to products (which are now "services") rather scary anyway, no matter what it is.
In the past, when you were in trouble economically, you couldn't buy new things, including food, and clothes when they wore out, and other things that are, to varying degrees, essential. That was unpleasant enough. But the things you owned, had bought and paid for, they didn't go away. If ever more of the economy turns to subscription models, and I mean things way more essential than Photoshop or the seat heating in your car, that's bound to change. Life will be the point of a dagger slowly pushing towards, or indeed into your back. Always, whatever you do, wherever you go. You better not need to stop moving forward because you're not feeling well today, or need to tie a shoe lace, or need the toilet. Or because your boss isn't feeling well today. Or your customer. If any of that happens, you better have managed to get a bit of distance between yourself and the blade before it catches up with you.
Yet catch up it will, one way or another, one day or another. If nothing else, then during the next Lehman crisis or the next 9/11 or whatever there will be. Or maybe just because you said something your new cyber AI overlord doesn't agree with. You heretic!