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

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 11, 2017 at 05:36 PM

I was just reading Max’s take on the change to subscription for Ulysses:

https://medium.com/building-ulysses/why-were-switching-ulysses-to-subscription-47f80b07a9cd

Interesting but he never acknowledges something that I think is pretty important: Developers have out-sourced the job of bug-hunting onto their users. In the old days, bugs had to be exterminated before the product was shipped, because there was no way to simply update with fixes. Max makes it sound like fixing bugs is a benefit to the user, that the user should pay for. In fact, releasing software with bugs is a benefit to the developer.

Just two more cents…

Steve Z.