@craig1black Well that sucks. Quite steep price for a weekly subscription, even with the loyalty discount.

@Laziter No kidding -- I kind of recall the app was $50 too -- I've had it for a couple years now, and I had to buy it twice for my Android and iOS phones...

@craig1black Something similar happened to Pixelmator Pro on MacOS going subscription... except they actually did it right. Legacy users that had purchased the app originally are grandfathered in with free upgrades going forward. Only new users pay ongoing subscription rates.

@bretstephensnyc That sounds like the right way to do it

@craig1black This conundrum has me wondering if Linux phones like the Librem 5 and Pine64 have appimage support for installing software...

@craig1black I’m don’t suppose that “already purchased” link at the top is for you? I’m probably being too optimistic. 😕

@craig1black Same with us. Been using Filmic Pro for ~2 years. Then, they’re like… Pony Up $ome More! I understand needing to be paid for more, additional work/features, but I think they went about it the wrong way for everyone that were original purchasers. Leaves a bad taste.

@craig1black Wow, very lame. Lol, “loyalty discount”.

@craig1black Time to move to a new app I guess.

@craig1black This is why I basically never buy any apps on my phone. Digital distribution is antithetical to ownership when the company can arbitrarily decide you don't own it anymore with zero repercussions for them.

@craig1black If you want to film with a phone this is the one to get, but it's not cheap.

@craig1black Yeah - that is lame... Is like have a cake and eat the cake, but for a developer 😬

@craig1black @ChartreuseK Didn’t they keep v6 “legacy” in the App Store for anyone who bought it previously? I just downloaded it a couple days ago (no subscription needed)

@craig1black Thats not even borderline fraud, that's just fucking fraud. You bought a perpetual licence for a digital product and they revoked it. That's fraud

@craig1black No commitments...* *...unless you'd like reasonable access to your stuff. This is sort of why I'm trying to unshackle myself from Adobe.

@craig1black Subscriptions are the work of the Devil. I hate them so much on so many levels.

@craig1black #FOSS FTW I can donate directly to the Devs or Project Foundation or not at all I can help promote the software, help in the Project or Community forums, plus contribute code or bug fixes Even though I'm not obligated and never will be to do any of that

@craig1black @darkpatterns , check this out

@craig1black Subscriptions are toxic and will eventually give way to single purchases again once enough people stop subscribing and AppStores don't list them as "free (in-app purchases)" anymore.

@craig1black FFS, tell me it's not true!  I also use that, but maybe not for much longer...  I /hate/ this subscription stuff :-(