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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Using subscription-based services to provide stuff you depend on, particularly the ones where there's no alternative (like the Adobe software), just isn't smart.
And yes, I do think some subscription-based services are both wrong and evil.
For example, I'd never pay even one cent for a Windows-as-a-service subscription. I'd rather toss all my games in the bin (or run them on an older computer as long as it'll last) and move to Linux.
You pay for convenience. You pay to NOT have control over you stuff, including what you're going to pay in the future. If people keep adding subscription-based services, they'll be paying tens if not hundreds of euro's a year, and the rates in the future will only go up.
And yes, all of this is a problem, or there wouldn't be a thread about Dropbox dropping the number of devices/apps that can be subscribed. You can switch to something else; but I'm convinced, that in the end, only Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon will be in the cloud business. All the others will either have gone bankrupt, or they'll be bought.
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Again, all this talk about depending and not having control. You still assume that people who use Dropbox don't keep back-ups elsewhere. And since you'd never use any subscription-based services anyway, why are you concerned about their future prices?
I use Dropbox for convenience, but I don't depend on it. I can perfectly well access my stuff without it. It would just be slower and less convenient. But if they ever raise their prices to the point I could no longer afford, I will not hesitate to quit.