TJ Luoma on TextExpander 6’s Subscription Pricing

TJ Luoma, on Smile shipping the newest version of TextExpander as a $45/year subscription service:

To be clear, I’m not saying that the Smile folks are bad, evil, mean, money-grubbers or anything like that. What I am saying is this: as an experienced power-user of your software, I do not have the slightest clue why you decided to make this service mandatory when it seems to offer very little for individual users, and I have no idea why I should pay a monthly fee for something that has worked fine before. What problem does TextExpander 6 solve for me?

I can’t answer that question.

And if I can’t answer that question, Smile has a big problem.

Subscription pricing makes sense, but I do think $45/year is a bit high.

Update: Joe Cieplinski has a good take, too.

★ Tuesday, 5 April 2016