![]() A lower upgrade price would do more for sales, in my opinion, than a change in licensing strategy. Which is to say, Panic’s strategy has backfired on them. So while the new version may help some, it is irrelevant to others. Speaking for myself, while Transmit 5 has a plethora of improvements which obviously impacted development costs (no upgrade discount), none of them affect me, so I have not upgraded from Transmit 4. Another example of this is Toast, which is struggling to hold onto a dying medium with expensive and trivial upgrades. Sometimes this works and sometimes it does not, which may explain why their sales are lagging. I think they are attempting to retain relevance by adapting to every new technology under the sun. In software, or course, this has led to feature bloat in many cases, which has certainly affected Transmit. There is an old saying in business, if you’re not growing, you’re dying. At the same time companies are always seeking to expand their user base-there is no such thing as enough profit. No product can survive with a static customer base new development is necessary to even retain their existing users. But it has reduced development costs, which was the main point of the exercise. ![]() As for development, subscription pricing has not slowed, let alone halted, development of Adobe’s products, for instance, or Microsoft’s either. It doesn’t store it in any proprietary format of its own. I don’t see how any of your arguments apply to Transmit. The bottom line is that if you use a subscription App for data you are locked into that product on a fee paying basis for as long as you want to access your data or the company supports the product.įor those thinking ‘Export’, exporting data into a different format is not required or guaranteed to work.Īs a side issue, subscriptions hinder development as once the developer has enough subscribers to insure an effective profit, their is little financial incentive to improve the product as customers can abandon the product without losing access to their data. You often cannot abandon the App if a competitor comes out with a better product without loosing all your data.If the company abandons the App or ceases business, you may be faced with the prospect fo loosing all your data unless the data is stored in some kind of a universal format. ![]()
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