What you said makes sense, but most app developers don’t consider apps as a kind of craft. They can choose to craft but they always do something unnecessary to justify their business model, leaving a lot of bugs.
I rather use a knife that is a finished product, not a knife growing hair, hands, legs… frequently and endlessly.
My experience of subscription is really frustrating. Not to mention Evernote I paid for working for them finding out all the bugs for them to resolve (and they never, and even rolling out the monster electron apps making it unusable. Bending Spoons is not really improving the app but doing marketing). Craft never fixed the issue of my language in which I have raised to them and they said they would fix. Bear is overall reliable but they have still a lot of small annoying bugs. VSCO also sucks as they mess the file name of the images you import and export losing the original date metadata, besides buggy as many users complain.
Ironically my quality apps don’t need subscription: Pixelmator, Procreate, iA Writer, free Netnewswire (no issues (ve updates for more than a year). Previously used Goodnotes is also reliable!
App developers who support subscription always say the model can make a tool sustainable. However in order to make it sustainable they are doing more and more to seek attention of users and people who don’t know them they are so hardworking (marketing but in turn not truly helping customers), and this will need them to hire more and more people, needing VC to fund and resulting in raising subscriptions price vicious loop!
The reasons I can’t subscribe Ulysses because they said they have updates/new features every month, looking like a monthly magazine rather than a tool for writing.
I get the money perspective, but the whole discussion takes the form of «us and them». Just feels…off to me. I’m pretty sure the Ulysses guys’ goal is to make the best tool possible for writing. I kind of like these people, and I don’t consider them greedy or «out to get my money».
I guess I like the knife to shine its given potential in its given hand. It might become a
I prefer tools that have proven to be stable over time as opposed to chasing shiny new features and most of my tools are open source / free software, but I certainly have no issues paying for quality software.
My current subscription breakdown:
Apps:
Parcel - at $5 CAD per year, it’s seriously cheap to help the dev pay for the server that powers the Amazon integration.
Services:
Proton
Fastmail
Backblaze
Kagi
iCloud+
I also make monthly donations to Signal & annual donations to Tor.
It’s expensive, but in my experience it’s the best search engine out there & I’m very much willing to pay for services that don’t have a surveillance business model.
In the spirit of this thread I’m giving Apple Notes a go again, along with Typora (following an unpleasant afternoon with OneDrive and a corrupted docx file )
Is there any way to turn off the phone number recognition? I use date/times in note titles a lot eg. 240924-1130 and it seems to think just about any sequence of numbers over a certain length is a phone number and hyperlinks it. A ten digit phone number wouldn’t be valid in the UK, and it would never start with 2!
Edit: Seems like it’s just a “thing” and has been for years. It’s not turn-offable. I can get around it by changing the format e.g., 240923T1130.
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