Well, that was an easy decision: I just deleted both Spark and Calendars. These are just not products that fit a subscription model. Back to default apps I go, apps that provide 99.5% of the functionality I need, even if they are missing some of the conveniences of the third-party offerings.
Spark email client goes subscription path
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Re: Spark email client goes subscription path
#42Well, that was an easy decision: I just deleted both Spark and Calendars. These are just not products that fit a subscription model. Back to default apps I go, apps that provide 99.5% of the functionality I need, even if they are missing some of the conveniences of the third-party offerings.
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#43Unfortunate that people who make more than $100/hr won't pay $60/year for an app they use every day.
I paid for Spark once when I bought it, can't remember how much. It currently have every feature I need. Can you please explain why would I pay on a monthly basis for it, when I don't want new features, I don't want UI redesign just keep the app in a working state while we are going through the regular OS upgrade cycle. My general experience with subscription based apps is that sooner or later they will introduce fea…
It's been free up until now, so unlikely that you ever paid for it.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
So my carpenter should be happy to keep paying for his drill or his circular saw? He should be grateful for the subscription to the lathe that he inherited from his grandfather?
Drills and saws are reliant upon attachments that need to be replaced to have any value.
Yes, but you are not forced to subscribe to a monthly fee to access those replacements (on a replacement schedule that doesn't even match your own usage of the tools), or have any access to the tools whatsoever.
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#45I went through my credit card statement this month and am cancelling a bunch of things I barely use. The mess of subscriptions most of us are forced into is getting absolutely insane and the "software makers need to do this to be able to eat!" excuses I see here are just silly.
I don't want my card dinged every month. I don't want to "manage" dozens of different subscriptions across different companies that all have different systems and methods for managing your "relationship" with them.
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#46I went through my credit card statement this month and am cancelling a bunch of things I barely use. The mess of subscriptions most of us are forced into is getting absolutely insane and the "software makers need to do this to be able to eat!" excuses I see here are just silly. I don't want my card dinged every month. I don't want to "manage" dozens of different subscriptions across different companies that all have…
Have you thought of switching to yearly?
Re: Spark email client goes subscription path
#47I went through my credit card statement this month and am cancelling a bunch of things I barely use. The mess of subscriptions most of us are forced into is getting absolutely insane and the "software makers need to do this to be able to eat!" excuses I see here are just silly. I don't want my card dinged every month. I don't want to "manage" dozens of different subscriptions across different companies that all have…
Have you thought of switching to yearly?
Switching to yearly subscriptions wouldn't accomplish much for me other than forcing me even deeper into the relationship (because now I am committed for at least a year instead of having the option to cancel on any given month), and inevitably I will forget to cancel if I don't want the service anymore and then be "dinged" for another years worth of subscription fees at some point.
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#48Re: Spark email client goes subscription path
#49If an app doesn't have recurring costs involved in serving their product (server costs, etc), it's hard to justify a subscription model vs charging a one time cost to purchase the app.
To fund/incentivize continuing development of new features, they can have reasonable in-app purchases to unlock those new features.
Re: Spark email client goes subscription path
#50Unfortunate that people who make more than $100/hr won't pay $60/year for an app they use every day.
Unfortunate that companies that used to sell products are choosing to rent them out instead.
Spark was free before this. Users can continue to use the free version (and existing customers will keep all the features they’ve had).