- #Typinator vs textexpander 2016 upgrade
- #Typinator vs textexpander 2016 software
- #Typinator vs textexpander 2016 mac
#Typinator vs textexpander 2016 software
I don't want new features, I just want the software to be regularly polished, I want bugs to be fixed and I want it to work with newer OS versions.
There are several essential utilities that I'd gladly pay a subscription fee for. And yet we still play that silly game where developers have to announce "major features" in order to justify getting some money once every several years. Users will not keep the current OS version forever. Developers need money to fix bugs and adapt the software to new operating systems and environments. I think we should finally abandon the idea that software can be "purchased" once and used forever. I would be very happy to switch to subscription-based pricing. I have been buying "major upgrades" as they came out, without caring much for the features.
#Typinator vs textexpander 2016 mac
I've seen this with other Mac apps I enjoy and in most of those cases, I don't use them enough to make the jump. I think $5 a month for single users is too high.I think $10 a month per users for teams is too high too.īut the broader move to a SaaS in this case to me is troubling because my instinctive response is, "Smile is doing this because they have to" - and that says a lot about the current state of indie software, that a subscription model is the only way forward. That said, I don't think they have the right pricing. Simply put, I've received enough value from the app over the years to make it worth that to me. I use TE dozens of times a day and although I could use an alternative (there is Keyboard Maestro which I also use, but for different stuff, aText and a host of others), I'll just pay the $48 a year or whatever (I think it's $24 for the first year for existing customers) for the solo version. But I do sympathize with how difficult it is to move a product - especially a well-loved product - to a different model. I was talking about this on Twitter yesterday, on the whole of it, I agree with TJ's critique - this was NOT launched well.
#Typinator vs textexpander 2016 upgrade
Of course it's better for you as a developer if you can convince people to pay you $60 per year in perpetuity for your small utility app, rather than just collecting a one-time $30 sale and occasional upgrade fees, but just because that's your super-dream-fantasy business model doesn't mean it makes any sense for customers. At some point you need to realize you've wrung all the money you can out of upgrades, and if the revenue from new sales and (increasingly rare) major upgrades isn't enough to live on, well, you better develop some new and different products. That's the life-cycle of software products sold on the traditional model. I didn't mind paying that, even if the new features were minor (I can't even remember what they were - and I think I actually upgraded only because v4 wouldn't work anymore on a newer version of OS X, though my recollection could be wrong). IIRC, it was $19.95 to upgrade from v4 to v5. They charged an upgrade fee for new major versions. There's little or nothing else that needs to be added to the product at this point. I'm using version 5, i.e., the fourth major version upgrade. TextExpander has been around for a long time.
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