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Same company acquired two very similar apps.

One required a $14/year subscription, the other $90/year

So they "carefully considered this decision" by delisting the cheaper one for the more expensive one. Boom, 500% cost increase

Don't want to pay? Well, your files are hostage. Stop paying and lose your data.

Ps: remember the lie "subscription for software assures constant updates"?

The announcement serves as the final nail in the coffin for one of the iPad’s oldest and most popular sculpting apps, which hasn’t received any major updates since 2023.

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[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Buying things is so fucking stupid.

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Subscriptions aren't buying, thats the problem.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, see, they are the same thing. 'Owning' is just an agreement, and the corporation or a government or whatever can and will go back on the deal. Only protections are violence or security by obscurity.

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Just a language shift for corporations, definitely.