Ulysses, infected by a trendy virus, changes to all-Subscription model

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 11, 2017 at 04:03 PM

Right you are, Prion. Much like a graphic designer pays an annual subscription for Adobe Design Cloud, Hewson pays for the tools of his craft. And I certainly understand and respect that attitude.

You and Bill both bring up an interesting possible side benefit for CRIMPers. Right now it is easy to pay a one-off fee to purchase a piece of software. If you end up not using it much, you don’t really have to think about it again. But when it is a subscription, you definitely need to be more careful about spending those initial dollars (or substitute the currency of choice). For example, with DayOne and Ulysses. They both do similar things. You could write a book in DayOne if you wanted to and you can certainly keep a diary in Ulysses. I possibly can see myself abandoning DayOne altogether and paying the subscription for Ulysses (I’d never go the other way, but others might). How many other apps will fall by the wayside as they go to subscription?

Hmmm. Food for thought.

Steve Z.