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Originally Posted by Apocalypto
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.
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.
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I oppose to subscribing for software on basic principle. I buy software, I don't rent it. There are a lot of software companies that like the idea of a constant revenue stream. I doubt you will find very many customers who like it though.