{"id":27533,"date":"2019-12-11T16:54:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27533"},"modified":"2019-12-16T15:47:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T20:47:46","slug":"linea-3-to-switch-to-subscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/11\/linea-3-to-switch-to-subscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Linea 3 to Switch to Subscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iconfactory.com\/2019\/12\/linea-28-and-beyond\/\">The Iconfactory<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gedeon\/status\/1204449125313531904\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.iconfactory.com\/2019\/12\/linea-28-and-beyond\/\">\n<p>We tried hard to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iconfactory.com\/2018\/06\/tips-for-great-service\/\">avoid a subscription<\/a>, but the costs to maintain the app are much higher than the income from new sales. This is obviously not a sustainable situation!<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>A majority of that time was not even spent adding new features, instead it was spent making sure that everything looked right with the operating system&rsquo;s new Dark Mode!<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>All of this comes at a low price: 99&cent; per month or $9.99 per year (a 20% savings.) Additionally, if you purchased Linea at any time in 2019, you&rsquo;ll also get a free one year subscription.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>It sounds like they are going to replace the old app with the new one, like with Twitterrific 6.<\/p>\n\n<p>It&rsquo;s going from $10 one-time to $10\/year. On the one hand, that&rsquo;s a hefty increase, but on the other hand $10\/year is not a lot for an app that you regularly use. I haven&rsquo;t seen many other developers choosing subscriptions this cheap. It seems like it could become a sweet spot between steady recurring revenue and a price that customers are willing to pay.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/17\/twitterrific-6-for-ios\/\">Twitterrific 6 for iOS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/20\/productivity-apps-and-subscription-pricing\/\">Productivity Apps and Subscription Pricing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"linea-3-to-switch-to-subscriptions-update-2019-12-16\">Update (2019-12-16): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jablair\/status\/1205233261766684672\">Eric Blair<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jablair\/status\/1205233261766684672\">\n<p>Reading this, I&rsquo;d assumed Linea 2 had been a paid upgrade. Apparently not - looks like the last time I paid for Linea was 2017.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a little nuts that I got ~3 years of use and major upgrade out of the original $10.<\/p>\n<p>Sustainable software is a good thing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iconfactory (tweet): We tried hard to avoid a subscription, but the costs to maintain the app are much higher than the income from new sales. This is obviously not a sustainable situation! 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