I concur with the general theme: I’m getting pretty darn tired of Software as a Subscription and the whole rental model. I’ll leave the developers’ view up to others. This again is out of the renter’s hands other than pressuring the supplier to improve the service. Trust is important, especially as the whole process depends in the first place on a reliable Internet connection, which does not exist everywhere and is open to malware.Īnd (3), although the interface to the service is easy enough to navigate tight now, how will discovery be managed when and if the number of packages increases? The quality of discovery is not good even on Apple’s Store, and Apple has vast resources compare to a startup service.
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How reliable will the supplier be over the long term? Will the rental rate escalate over time? Will levels of access be costed to separate high-end professional software from run-of-the-mill products? What happens when the rental ends – will any and what software will remain on the user’s computer? (2) Much of the resistance to software rental is based on lack of trust. (1) Software rental might make sense for new non-professional users of an operating system who don’t have any investment in software, but most experienced and professional users already have substantial software investment, so converting to a rental system doesn’t immediately offer any financial incentive – rather, it seems to be just an additional expense. (I saw an iTunes card on sale in Costco, with a significant discount, I didn’t have a good enough reason to buy it.) Setapp creates competition.
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Meanwhile, the Mac App Store seems to be going nowhere. This story seems to be getting solid media coverage. One thing is for sure, Setapp is good at getting coverage. I don’t know if “Most” people will like it though, as the responses here in the forum show.Įven if I did subscribe, I’d basically be paying for apps that I already own, which means Setapp doesn’t make economic sense for me.
Netflix is incredibly popular, so a Netflix for Apps might appeal to some people. This is not to say that Setapp is a bad idea. If Tumult needs more money and popularity, there’s an obvious way to accomplish that… I’m not about to join the beta to find out. What exactly does Setapp do to the desktop computer? Does it monitor usage? I don’t know. Maybe the percentage is based on popularity. Perhaps the developers get a different rate. I’m not really seeing how this helps Tumult in the long run.
That means Tumult would need a person to subscribe for 500 months or approximately 42 years. So… $10 a month, divided by 40 apps, is 25¢ a month for Hype? (That’s not even counting what the commission is for Setapp.) Even at 20¢ a month, that’s a long time for Tumult to beat a traditional sale.įirst I had to figure out which version was in use… …and it seems like the Pro version because I see Physics and Symbols listed as a feature. Of course it’s understandable as a side-revenue for Tumult (I guess “these occasional users” is a new userbase that hype wouldn’t otherwise be able to approach), with two caveats though:Ī) it may give the wrong impression to people that “hype has turned subscription based” (and thus push away “serious” customers) orī) when seen in a bundle one might get the impression that hype is “one of these mediocre apps that are only worthy if found in a package deal” (which is bad publicity). Especially since none of these apps are useful to a designer.Įven if they were design-oriented (ie there was a worthy replacement for most Adobe Cloud aspects inside this bundle), one would still choose the adobe solution since it’s proven and comprehensive - unless the Setapp pricing is ridiculously low (maybe as low as 1-5€/month “for all your designer needs” would be interesting) I doubt customers who do design, or customers who were otherwise interested in Hype would be interested in renting it in a pack of 49 other apps. “ hmm, I think I saw an app doing animation in that subscription service I’m having. I think it’s attractive only to “occasional” customers people who one day decide they want to do an animation and already have paid for the subscription in that toolbox.
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