@rfduck charging per version used to work just fine, it would work again. The problem is that people got used to paying 99 cents for stuff, so paying more is hard to stomach for people. But there's no reason why devs couldn't offer both. I know when there's a lifetime option, that's always the one I choose if the app is worth it
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I hate everything. I used to really love technology. And I guess I still do, but I hate what a lot of tech, especially software, has become. It used to be either an app was free or it wasn’t. Usually the free stuff came with some other way to monetize itself (remember the bars that used to be forced on you when you downloaded a Windows app?) The paid stuff, you paid for and that was it. Maybe legally you didn’t own it (EULAs were a bitch even back then), but you didn’t really have to worry about too much since you had a honest-to-God-CD you could use to re-install with if something fucked up.
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