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Originally Posted by Turtle91
I agree - I dislike subscriptions. If I don't pay this month, now I can't use the software?!?!? There is one subscription program that does it slightly different...the company at Collectorz.com allows you to opt in or out of subscriptions at your choice. If you opt out, then you continue using the software version you had at the time you opt out.
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Paid updates would be great, but it's not a model the App Store currently supports. I can't speak for Kris but I imagine if the subscription expires it'd just go back to showing the ads.
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For me, I will just pay for Marvin when new versions come out. It's an app I (and all my family) use every day....so well worth the price.
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It's not worth $5/yr for something you say you use everyday? I know we all like free things but if we want a healthy Marvin then we need to make it worth Kris's time to continue development. Prior to the 3.0 announcement people assumed it was abandoned, do we really want to go there again? Ideally Kris would earn enough he could make this a career but if there were 5,000 people who paid $5 a year that'd be only 17.5k the first year and 21.25k in subsequent years (on which Kris then has to pay taxes). And that gets divided not just by hours spent developing the app but all the support he has to do.