{"id":26245,"date":"2019-08-12T17:08:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T21:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26245"},"modified":"2019-08-13T14:11:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T18:11:32","slug":"grief-from-transitioning-to-subscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/12\/grief-from-transitioning-to-subscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Grief From Transitioning to Subscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Steinberger<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Transitioning an app to subscription is always an adventure - even if you don’t take features away, people give you 💩<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Twitterrific<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Even if you ADD a ton of features.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Pádraig Kennedy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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fwiw we were shocked that we barely had any of this when we moved Castro to subscription. I guess it depends on the type of app and who your users are.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Markus Müller-Simhofer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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You get the same 💩 when you dare to release a paid upgrade. Or even when you do Freemium to offer a [trial]. Two example<\/a> from just today.<\/p>\n

And you have no idea how many people give us 1-star reviews because Mac and iOS are separate purchases (cross platform unlocks are only allowed for subscriptions). I [file] those as feature request for a subscription… 🤐<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Michael Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This is a loud, but luckily, minority of users. These people seem to think apps write and update themselves and that that supporting an app is free. These same “loyal” users wouldn’t care if we went out of business. Part of the app business (and life!), I guess. 😉<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Kyle Howells<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Part of the problem is iOS itself.<\/p>\n

Apps need constant maintenance to just keep running and working because, else they break.\nThe means, I want to keep this thing I’ve already bought, and, I want new features and updates all the same, end up combined together.<\/p>\n

as a result you get “I bought this app, I just want to keep it, why are you taking it away from me and making me pay again?”<\/p>\n

But without more work, iOS itself will take the app away from you by breaking it or refusing to run it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n