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I don’t want to pay once and own it forever, I want to pay once and then in a few years when it’s gotten buggy or incompatible or whatever I pay you some more money for an upgrade. If I use it a lot maybe I pay you more often, if I use it rarely maybe I pay less often, if I’ve got a lot of bills this month maybe I put it off a few months.

That’s really it - I’ll happily give you more money occasionally if I keep using it, but the burden of stretching that revenue so that you can make your payroll every 2 weeks ought to fall on you, not on me, and if you sit on your ass and barely make any changes for a year I shouldn’t be stuck paying you the same monthly fee while you do that.

The downside of throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks is that you end up having to clean up a whole lot of shit of the floor.

Psu Psu Psudsudo

Apple’s managed to become a credible player in the TV space in a few short years by, essentially, hiring some competent veteran executives to run the thing and throwing buckets of money at it; I think any sufficiently motivated big tech company could do the same thing with games.

What is root if not supervisor persevering?

a) Good for them

b) How long before NVIDIA throws up their hands at the whole thing and does their own Linux distro + pushes all their cloud AI customers to use it? (it doesn’t seem like they’re ever going to be shamed / coerced into actually open-sourcing their driver)

'Cause I’m G PL
Yes I’m the real PL
All you other letter PLs
Aren’t actually PLs

I blame Apple for not creating a viable system for paid upgrades; it’s perfectly reasonable for a developer to expect to be paid for a major app update - even if it was largely to support a new OS - but without a subscription, the only way to do that is to launch a brand new version of your app, which loses you all of your carefully cultivated SEO / links / etc. (doing this via IAP is impractical because you can only build your app against one version of iOS at a time; it either supports the new version or it doesn’t)

And I suspect Apple does this because they don’t want people to have to pay money to continue using apps on a new version of iOS, or a new phone; if buying a new iPhone meant forking over $50 to upgrade your favorite apps for it, that might mean fewer people buying new phones.

So don’t blame developers for this, in other words; a lot of them would be perfectly happy to charge users the occasional upgrade fee instead of a recurring subscription, but Apple doesn’t want them to. (they’re also very happy to have their 30% cut of all of that lovely subscription revenue)

A line of guillotines, one for every tech CEO Lemmy doesn’t like (plus a couple of other random people specific instances have beef with, like the Dalai Lama)

All-time classic Verge article on this subject:

https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine

My biggest problem with it has been that it doesn’t necessarily understand that some things are impossible - for example, variable-length lookbehinds.

Piracy

Casting mods into the sea

Swimming through spez lullabies